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Feb 6, 2018 11 Comments

What’s the culture at MS for an SDE? Since MSFT has its own tech stack, I believe there’s no open source tool encouragement. And considering there’s a big community out there for open source, how does MSFT technologies compare?

Do I stand a better chance of getting into good company after working for Microsoft?

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  • Google
    NHzc50

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    NHzc50
    Half of Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, Uber and Snapshot in Seattle are ex MSFT employees. So, your chances of getting into a good company is quite high. MS is a great company to work for as well (i worked there for 11 years).
    Feb 6, 2018 4
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      OP
      I’m joining Azure Network team. If you have any insights on that team, I’d really appreciate that.
      Thank you for the advice.
      Feb 6, 2018
    • Google
      NHzc50

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      NHzc50
      Azure Networking is quite large. Some teams have quite a good charter but some focus on tooling, monitoring,... Etc. If you are in a core group, yoy should be good. The on call might be busier than others though. Even if you are not in the core teams initially, i wouldn't worry much. You can learn quite a bit there and move within networking team or to other Azure teams with ease. Learn as much as you can - Azure gives you quite a bit exposure to many different tech. The scale is huge and there arent many companies that will give you that learning opportunity.
      Feb 6, 2018
  • Amazon
    KYNQ07

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    KYNQ07
    I worked at Microsoft for years up till about a decade ago and I still miss the more integrated tooling compared to the open source stacks I’ve dealt with since. There is significant value in a relatively coherent design strategy from a company with a history of producing a whole platform worth of dev tools, and with deep historical experience.
    Feb 7, 2018 1
  • Microsoft / Eng
    949

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    949
    There’s tons of open source based tooling inside now, and a lot of pretty good internal tools too. The knowledge of these tools does not make one a better engineer in a fundamental sense, unless the tools are so bad and impact productivity significantly.
    Feb 6, 2018 1
  • Amazon
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    Asfjfk
    In 2016, microsoft was the company with the biggest open source contributions: https://octoverse.github.com/2016/.

    Some of the more recent open source projects released include vs code and react xp. I agree that many teams still work in Microsoft enterprise languages, but Microsoft does have open source projects
    Feb 7, 2018 0
  • Microsoft / Eng
    rMyU80

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    rMyU80
    Tech stack? Oh yeah. Prepare to eat shit with CoreXT, BuildTracker and other internal garbage. Most of engineers are retarded enough to not know how to create account on GitHub.
    Feb 7, 2018 0