I’ve seen a lot of unique tricks to source and recruit employees with hard-to-find skills, and heard about a lot more, but I have never found one that is so utterly simple and basic in its appeal.

Yes, if you’re Microsoft, you need more than just stock options, great pay, and other high-tech perks to lure and land engineers. Yes, if you want to find and recruit highly-sought-after tech workers, you need something so basic and visceral in its appeal that no one could possibly turn it (or you) down.

Yes, you need bacon.