Re:Ask HN: Which companies have the best engineering culture?
by TooBrokeToBeg on Friday June 08, 2018 @01:11PM
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The people I talk to, from Microsoft. Disagree. The politics are brutal and the infrastructure brittle and constantly changing (with all the overhead and oversight of a high-security industry like finance) until nothing really gets done.
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Re:Ask HN: Which companies have the best engineering culture?
by nlawalker on Friday June 08, 2018 @02:02PM
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"Microsoft" isn't really a valid answer to the question in my opinion. The company is huge and culture varies greatly from org to org and team to team.
Even concrete stuff like "offices going away" completely depends on your team.
There is an extremely thin line of commonality that you can pretty easily discern by reading blog posts and watching videos of the CEO and folks like Scott Guthrie; I find what I see in those communications to be genuine.
(disclosure: At Microsoft, and liking the culture)
Re:Ask HN: Which companies have the best engineering culture?
by gfo on Friday June 08, 2018 @01:18PM
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That's true of the political battles at any large company. However, the question is asking about engineering culture.
Sure, company politics can interfere with this on occasion but it's rare. I read the question more as, "Which companies have the best philosophies regarding how engineering should be done?"
Could be a difference of course, but it's not clear.