Microsoft one drive/share point team

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Dec 17, 2017 21 Comments

Thinking of interviewing for sde role with the share point/ one drive team at Microsoft. Any idea how good the team is in terms of engineering culture, org/product impact and challenging problems to work on. Also any other good teams people here can recommend at Microsoft.
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  • Good Teams in MSFT that I know of:
    - Azure IOT
    - Azure ML
    - Bing (various orgs)
    - Education (EDU)
    - OneNote - mixed reviews, overall good.
    - Teams - mixed reviews, overall good

    Teams to avoid:
    - WDG / Windows
    - Office (Word, Excel etc)
    - Exchange / Outlook
    - Sharepoint
    Dec 17, 2017 10
  • Run away from sharepoint
    Dec 17, 2017 3
    • Pros:
      Good culture, good people and less politics. Enterprise driven.

      Cons:
      Archaic engineering/code/infrastructure. Very slow moving. Very centered around MSFT tech.
      Dec 17, 2017
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      Thanks for the input. In that case which team would you say is among the better ones- azure? I am a backend Dev guy. Looking for a role that is not heavily msft tech centered. I heard MS now has many teams working on open source frameworks. Any idea which teams are those?
      Dec 17, 2017
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    OneDrive is good IMO (source: worked there), especially under Bailey.
    SPO is shit. I don't agree that there is no politics, I found that there were a lot. Lots of crappy old code and people who live off of tribal knowledge gained through tenure instead of being a good engineer.
    Dec 20, 2017 4
  • Sharepoint sucks dude. Don't join
    Dec 17, 2017 0