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Which BigTech (10k+ employees) has the worst internal dev tooling? I have heard horror stories about some build systems at Microsoft but curious how others fare

• oneepic 3y ago
  I'd be interested to hear these horror stories about Msft (are they from the modern era? 2010s? 2020s?). On my old team there, I really liked our build system (Azure Devops/Azure Repos, basically all-in-one tool from issue tracking to Git to CI/CD deploying to Azure....
  • jatins 3y ago
    > I'd be interested to hear these horror stories about Msft I believe it's called Ohome and is an ancient tool still used in Windows/office org
  • saalweachter 3y ago
    The horror story I used to hear was from the pre-cloud era-- when you set up a new computer to build, you'd need to wait a day while the initial pull & build finished before you could really do anything.
    • coredog64 3y ago
      That’s Twitter: I had to leave my Mac overnight to pull down the monorepo contents before I could do anything.
• wombat-man 3y ago
  Not sure this counts, but adobe had no org wide tooling afaik. Each team could pick its CI, code review, repo , issue tracker etc. I was on a smaller product but it was chaos. I especially felt it when we had some CI issues and no expertise to help. It was a lot of time out the window trying to get the basics working.