Details of these verbal assurances stipulated that OpenAI employees who quit would receive the same amount of total compensation they receive at OpenAI should they be hired by Microsoft.
What Microsoft can and can't do comes down to what CEO Satya Nadella wants to see happen at his company, a Microsoft employee said.
Ultimately, a move to Microsoft is not what OpenAI employees really wish to happen.
Although everyone who signed the letter has shown they are willing to work for Microsoft, so long as Altman is there, too, they have little desire to work there.
The company is enormous compared to OpenAI, with a reputation for bureaucracy, slower work and lower pay, one of the employees said.
Persons:
Sam Altman, Altman, Greg Brockman, Satya Nadella, Nadella, Satya, Sam
Organizations:
Microsoft, Wired, Business, Big Tech