Code Story: We Offered 30% Higher Salaries and Cut Churn 50%: A 2026 HR Retrospective

In Q1 2026, our 120-person engineering org increased base salaries by 30% across all IC levels, and by year-end, voluntary dev churn dropped from 24% to 12% — a 50% reduction that saved us $4.2M in annual recruiting and onboarding costs. How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale (218 point