[VirusNewbie]

>I often wonder is AWS success due to paying top dollar to staff where as IBM seems to have gone down the cost cutting route and low salaries.

I think that's almost certain. Even if IBM finds and rewards the rockstars they have and promotes them quickly and gives them special treatment, i'm guessing a lot of them would prefer to work at Amazon or Google. Not only would they make good money, most of their coworkers would be of higher quality as well.

[yuppie_scum]

I bet IBM beats AWS handily on work-life balance, pressure from management, and most of the metrics of work satisfaction other than compensation and maybe office facilities

IBM probably doesn’t use Chime for meetings, either.

[VirusNewbie]

I always assumed a good chunk of developers derive satisfaction from either making software that is useful and used, or compensation. I don't see how IBM wins on either of those fronts.

I suppose for a narrow group of people might prefer IBM, but certainly not the majority of talent.