Great Engineers, Muddy System
Great Engineers, Muddy System
There are some really great engineers you can work with. Contrary to many beliefs, I still think Microsoft has above-average engineers. The question is how they can be utilized better in a system that did not have good management.
It was like walking in mud to get anything done. There were intense politics when projects crossed teams. When things failed, there was a lot of finger-pointing, and not enough people trying to solve the problems. The system has failed the good engineers I know.
Fire most of the middle management, reduce the number of PMs. Seriously, nobody in Silicon Valley structures their team in a way that the PM to dev ratio is 1:2.
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