<story><title>Jeffrey Snower was originally demoted over PowerShell</title><url>https://twitter.com/jsnover/status/1523010444570419200</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vessenes</author><text>This is an intriguing peek into some upper echelon MS politics. He notes he got busted down from L69 to L68 - L68 is a significant cutoff inside MS, titled “Partner”. L70 is “Distinguished Engineer”. For recent years, L68 all-in comp is probably right around $1mm a year, although I’m sure that was a bit lower when PowerShell was being written, and much higher in toto if you held on to your RSUs.&lt;p&gt;What surprises me is everything &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; said here - I know a number of MS Partner-level folks, and they all strike me as perfectly capable of funding and hiding a reasonable-sized team to work on anything they think is important; in fact reducing and removing precisely this practice is one of the reforms Satya has made — getting upper echelon fiefdoms more aligned.&lt;p&gt;So, I think the full story is actually a lot &lt;i&gt;more&lt;/i&gt; interesting than the tweets. I’d personally like a short memoir instead of the tweets. In any event, don’t feel too bad for him - he did fine, and PowerShell is one of the features that let Windows stay competitive with Linux as the world transitioned to the cloud.</text></comment>
<story><title>Jeffrey Snower was originally demoted over PowerShell</title><url>https://twitter.com/jsnover/status/1523010444570419200</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>omega3</author><text>I find this twitter thread frustrating.&lt;p&gt;Q: What was the justification for the demotion? What became of the leaders that made that decision?&lt;p&gt;A: It was stranger than you can possibly imagine&lt;p&gt;I think the gist of the story is that he was assigned to work on X but worked on Y instead. Notwithstanding how great Y idea turned out to be it seems he was demoted for insubordination?</text></comment>