Re:"Normal" engineers are the key to great teams
by cafard on Friday March 14, 2025 @10:59AM
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Ballmer has a background in working for a software company. Did he ever actually work in software as such?
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Re:"Normal" engineers are the key to great teams
by psunavy03 on Friday March 14, 2025 @12:49PM
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Pretty sure he was explicitly brought on by Gates and Allen because he was a non-technical MBA type, and Microsoft had grown to the point where they needed one of those.
Sort of tracks with the Welchian bullshit he seems to have supported as CEO.