<story><title>Microsoft .NET Devs Anonymously Responds to Microsoft .NET Leadership</title><url>https://pastebin.com/RF6015kv</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>n8cpdx</author><text>I just had an old acquaintance  on the Azure team try to get me to apply at Microsoft.&lt;p&gt;I told him I can’t, because all the teams at Microsoft I’d want to work (particularly Windows) are suffering from poor management with user- and human-hostile values. I can’t work at a company that goes out of its way to make the world worse for people through software.&lt;p&gt;I gave a long list of examples of user hostile work coming out of Windows, but suggested I thought maybe DevDiv was an exception. A lot of the bad things in the world of windows dev are a direct result of the DevDiv v Windows feud that’s been going on since SteveSi was leading.&lt;p&gt;Oops. I was wrong. It turns out apparently all of Microsoft is driven by leadership that wants to make the world a worse place for human beings. Ads, sneaky non-optional telemetry, ripping features out of OSS code, and then lying about all of the above are management choices driven by the top.&lt;p&gt;I remember when they used to try to recruit for user obsession. That was a long time ago. It’s a shame, because their business model, unlike some other companies, is not fundamentally dependent on screwing users. This is all a Choice in the most profound sense, and an unnecessary choice at that.</text></comment>
<story><title>Microsoft .NET Devs Anonymously Responds to Microsoft .NET Leadership</title><url>https://pastebin.com/RF6015kv</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ghuntley</author><text>- Mirrored at &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gist.github.com&amp;#x2F;ghuntley&amp;#x2F;3bebb260c8b4411791ff8f880ca63989&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gist.github.com&amp;#x2F;ghuntley&amp;#x2F;3bebb260c8b4411791ff8f880ca6...&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;p&gt;- Sources within .NET team tell me that the pastebin is real.</text></comment>