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Well to be fair Steve Ballmer is a terrible leader and if he had to take the tech interviews he wouldn't have passed and Microsoft wouldn't have stagnated for 1
by noname120 2y ago
Well to be fair Steve Ballmer is a terrible leader and if he had to take the tech interviews he wouldn't have passed and Microsoft wouldn't have stagnated for 10 years, before Satya Nadella took over and brought the company back on its feet.
- ywvcbk 2y agoHe’s probably a decent leader just not a very good CEO for a company that needs to develop new products and enter new markets to continue growing rather than to try and squeeze every remaining penny from their current customers.
- smolder 2y agoSatya Nadella has been good for the stock price and is probably a better leader than Ballmer, but hasn't made MS into a respectable company.
- high_na_euv 2y agoMany Satyas successes started under Ballmer.
- noname120 2y agoCould you give some examples?
- high_na_euv 2y agoBiggest one: Azure, then Bing https://blog.jovono.com/p/ballmer-microsoft-underrated https://blog.jovono.com/p/ballmer-microsoft-underrated