Ballmer Says 'People Don't Want to Work' at Amazon
Ballmer: Intense Competition Between Microsoft, Amazon
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Microsoft Corp. has the upper hand in its “intense competition” with Amazon.com Inc. for talent and is the only company that can compete with Apple Inc. over hardware, said former Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer.
“I think they are a place people don’t want to work,” he said in an interview Friday on Bloomberg TV. Anybody who left Microsoft to go to Amazon, “we can count on them coming back within a year or two. It’s just not a great place to do innovative stuff as an engineer.”