This comment at
Mini-Microsoft's blog is a very fair description of the difference between Microsoft and other tech companies:
The problem is that every Microsoft employee is much too "empowered." Everybody is a little dynamo of chaos. There can be no overarching architecture or design of a product because any employee is "empowered" to rewrite a spec or a feature's code as they see fit, and if nobody complains strenuously enough, the change just stays put.
Not only is this behavior allowed, it's required. Being good at your job and doing the work you're assigned is a quick way to get fired (Kimmed). You have to keep increasing your "scope" and "influence" and "impact"--meaning make a bunch of decisions and changes to stuff where you're probably not the best person to be doing so.
Every Microsoft product is a result of everybody on the team just doing "whatever" for a few years, and it shows.
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