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Big Company In Need of Better Tools for Agility

Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Microsoft for 6 years
January 31, 2016
Seattle, Washington
3.0
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Pros

Great benefits! Seriously top-class benefits.

Competitive salary.

Chance to work on projects with huge reach.

Cons

Depending on the team, some of the tools you use to develop can be serious productivity killers. I'm talking build times in excess of 20 minutes as just one example. Sometimes, I have been blocked for multiple days dealing with infrastructure issues. Along with that, if you're on a team that is playing catchup with Google or other competitors, then there is tons of work and aggressive deadlines.

Advice to Management

Push platform teams to improve their tools so that devs spend less time chasing down issues not related to their development.

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