Joining Microsoft soon and wondering who has the better internal tools and docs among FAANG companies in your experience. Amazon is not bad, it doesn't take long to find what your looking for.
Amazon is garbage what are you talking about?
It's not bad if your joining Amazon from a non-faang or just a new grad
I’m gonna be joining Amazon ,. What can I expect ?
Google hands down. Microsoft - information percolates through people so connection is super important.
You'd think this applies to Google cause they don't have pip.
Google's internal document and information is indexed internally and accessible via the internal google search.
Where’s Microsoft in FAANG?
M is silent
Love it
Calls Faang, omits apple, netflix and adds microsoft 🤦🏻♂️
Have never worked at another FAANG to compare, but I really do think that Google's internal tools are incredible.
Meanwhile, Googlers: IDE sucks, test infra sucks, monitoring sucks, everything sucks.
I heard you guys code from a browser, other than that heard good things. Amazon is very cli heavy which is the only thing I love. Package management is a nightmare as everywhere else nothing better than mid size startups decacorns etc a
Have worked at 3 of the FANGM (including Microsoft). Google by far, by a light year. + moma > google search for internal work :P + I don’t remember the last time I had to use Stack Overflow (internal code search and Yaqs are epic) + there’s pretty much a go link to everything + design docs and thorough documentation are rewarded, and thus well maintained + project health scores + unified tooling across the company that actually works + ability to read and change pretty much any code through the company + monorepo makes build, versioning, protos and pretty much everything super easy In Microsoft: + VS code is epic + Some Visual Studio functionalities are dope, but the software itself is heavy, especially on large codebases • documentation is bad, usually non existent and mostly maintained as one notes by teams. Good luck finding that one note without knowing people. • Share point is a pain to maintain, has an outdated UI • The way to search is through hrweb and it’s a big joke • I’m surprised how scope and sangam still get used throughout the company given how unreliable, slow and badly designed they are • Build ecosystem (especially csproj and msbuild) is 🤮. Shabby vsts integrations. • The logging and metrics system (jarvis) is probably 10 years behind what Google has I can go on and on, but you get the point.
I wish I knew this before joining...
meh, the best thing about google is memgen, rest of the stuff is meh at best, fucking critique has UI from the 90s, cider laggy pos, rapid awkward to use.. Feels like you only mentioned the cookie cutter parts that every company has nowadays. I am not sure about microsoft, but in Linkedin we had go links to everything too.
I worked at FB, Amazon, and Microsoft. My experience with dev tooling is FB >> Amazon > Microsoft. FB open sources a lot of internal tooling and I believe is the second biggest company in open source projects. Amazon is slowing down in terms of internal developer tooling. Amazon Builder tool is focusing lot more on external community and completely forgot about internal tooling. Knowledge Tech (wiki, broadcast, sage ...) does not have a strong leadership and lot of churn. Microsoft is already ahead in many areas and will overall surpass Amazon soon in tooling.
I joined Google from MSFT. So far go/moma is superior to /infopedia for information searching and Salesforce beats Dynamics 365 by a million light year.
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Isn’t it Google by far?