I think that whoever asked this question was concerned more with sweatshop style working conditions and pay than whether your overtime pay is unfair. Compared to the companies assembling PCB's in Latin America and Southeast Asia, Microsoft's US operations are like living in Eden. ACtually, that is not entirely true. I have visited PCB assembly plants in Mexico that have fine working conditions. Of course, the pay is horrible and they use child labor, but it is better in Mexico at least to work for a computer company than some industrial company.
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I think that whoever asked this question was concerned more with sweatshop style working conditions and pay than whether your overtime pay is unfair. Compared to the companies assembling PCB's in Latin America and Southeast Asia, Microsoft's US operations are like living in Eden. ACtually, that is not entirely true. I have visited PCB assembly plants in Mexico that have fine working conditions. Of course, the pay is horrible and they use child labor, but it is better in Mexico at least to work for a computer company than some industrial company.