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by bitL 2323 days ago
Net profit >$100M and in the process of lowering taxes via restructuring to "tax friendly" countries like Netherlands (new HQ after Prague), while staying private. Also, look at how many IntelliJ/WebStorm etc. templates have links to Google Analytics and similar ("runs best in Chrome") in their default starting projects. Do you think that comes for free? Their main problem is uncontrolled growth they have no clue how to manage; I was told their culture used to be great but now is chaotic as their employee intake accelerated and nobody internally knows how to solve it.

OTOH Google at least doesn't try to kill them outright, just to assimilate them and headhunt their employees, but Microsoft would be happy if they disappeared instantly as many of their clients have an unwanted dependency on Resharper.

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I never understood ReSharper love, some people just like to cripple the performance of their machines.