Reader's Comments Why companies lose their best engineers . I have been a software engineer for over 11 years. I am writing to you about how most large companies lose their best employees, and never do anything about it. First of all, this is so true for many large engineering companies. What happens is this.
Most large companies are totally incapable of making quick adjustments to salary issues.
They just can't do it. The system is designed to fail. It relies on sales from its past products, so it is not critical to expand on new projects. Thus, it does absolutely nothing to retain its people. It just keeps the same salaries.