All companies I've worked at had dev environments that did not require any licensing. The tools used where mainly free or under the free tier (sublime, eclipse, CurcleCI, AWS...)
For larger products those will require to purchase certain usage since the workload will be higher but that's a company product cost and not per dev.
Unless one is developing MS products or is dependent on MS software I can't see how the numbers mentioned add up
For larger products those will require to purchase certain usage since the workload will be higher but that's a company product cost and not per dev.
Unless one is developing MS products or is dependent on MS software I can't see how the numbers mentioned add up