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Who do you think is left realistically? They're probably in their third or fourth generation of new hires since the heady days of when these applications were o
by adra 4y ago
Who do you think is left realistically? They're probably in their third or fourth generation of new hires since the heady days of when these applications were originally built. Some may have stayed as manager and a really small group may still Bere there as ICs but I'd be boggled if there's many left. That said, since most of these products are largely in maintenance, it's not like they need a ton of key people to drive innovation.
- CSMastermind 4y agoWhen I was there about 10 years ago there were still plenty of people left who had worked on core features like tables in Word and pivot tables in Excel. Granted a decade is a long time and most of them are probably retired at this point but it's pretty reasonable that engineers working on those teams today worked directly with the people who built a lot of the original features for these applications. So probably closer to something like 2.5 years removed in a lot of cases. Microsoft, again 10 years ago, had more engineers spending their entire career at the company than I've seen at anywhere else by a fairly large margin. Especially a large tech one (maybe Google is getting there?).