Post #1187026
2026-04-11 07:05 UTC
After MSFT bought GitHub the most pleasantly surprising thing to me was that the MSFT ICs that came over were… very good. Those I worked with were very technical, able to have technical discussions, and took feedback very well. I loved working with them. By then for years I already had long struggled with lots of product teams at GitHub. Many didn’t care for code quality, accessibility, nor performance. Not the MSFT folks. They also felt correctly leveled, no fluff in leveling.
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@muan@mastodon.social 2026-04-11 07:05
I had definitely heard that some didn’t have the best attitude towards GH people, but… I was frustrated enough with the product teams then to sympathize. Anyways, their competency was very surprising because MSFT product and management are still bad IMO, over there and where we were. This led me to think that these excellent engineers were severely poorly managed or directed. A waste really. I see very competent people being forced to perform at ~40% by management everywhere now.