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.
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.
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....
> 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
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.
That’s Twitter: I had to leave my Mac overnight to pull down the monorepo contents before I could do anything.