Microsoft Internal Silos

Microsoft isn't a single entity! Like any large corporation there are many teams and people doing great work, and they are many teams and people incentivized to downplay that work.

Sure. I've worked at Microsoft primarily, and I'm not speaking for all teams but I have a sibling on another team in another org and he has the same issuesMicrosoft is incredibly siloed. Each team is essentially their own mini company and they're mainly guided by large top line metrics but there's no top down overall vision on what something should look like. It's like those party games where everyone has to draw a portion of a drawing. It comes out looking like a dis

Microsoft is huge, with a lot of technical/organizational legacy. Think of it like a Linux distro, cloud, gaming, ERP and what not all rolled under one brand. So communications cannot always happen 1-to-1 like a clique in a graph. Even internally often the route to report bugs/ask features is similar to what is available to public.

Microsoft is not a person. And, by its size, is not a single entity with homogeneous values and procedures.You interacted with one part of Microsoft, maybe we are seeing the works of another part.

This attitude seems pretty dated.This microsoft are no longer the ridiculously dominant force they once were.Linux is a core part of their cloud business now.They have a new CEO, and a lot of time has passed.They are actively trying to change a lot of their culture and approach to things.

Microsoft devs have a reputation of being quite sub par.

I've heard Microsoft has gotten better, but I think this still rings true. https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/6jw33z/int...

Is this a sign that Microsoft is running out of employees that understand their own codebase?

Microsoft has always been a famously schizophrenic company: https://bonkersworld.net/organizational-chartsAs a result, I'm happy to trust e.g. the VS Code team, while I would not extend that trust anywhere near the Windows team.

Not suprising. One of the greatest programmers I ever knew eventually got hired by Microsoft. He worked as hard as one can work, only for his whole team to quit one by one due to the workload pushed on him by a boss seeking KPIs. The boss did so because it was the only way to get promoted. After all the coders on the team including my friend being the last, eventually quit, the boss ended up leaving after not being promoted / being unhappy a couple years later. Non of those coders wil