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by wideroots 5025 days ago
As far as I know, every employee gets a MSDN subscription, which comes with tons of Microsoft software for FREE. Plus, they dogfood their own products. They dogfood Windows, Office, Hotmail (or Outlook.com), SkyDrive, etc, and dogfooding is "free". If you hadn't known, now you know.

When I talked about the retention rate, I was focused on employees who've been with the company for 3 yrs or less. In tech industry, especially in software engineering field, people switch jobs fast. really fast. All my colleagues switch jobs every 2-3 years. For companies like Microsoft, Google, and Apple, this is not good. They now have to spend money to find potential candidates, spend more money to interview those potential candidates, make full-time employees to interview potential candidates (5-8 interviewer per candidate), etc.