[itisme]

The answers you will get here at HN will mostly be misplaced hatred against Microsoft, from people who hate MS, because someone else here at HN hates MS.

I think what you should do is, if possible, arrange for a short call with some of the team mates that you are going to work with. Just a casual one about how the kernel team day to day work looks like there. If not with the team, then maybe with your manager.

Unless someone from that team or some ex-kernel team member replies here, all the rest of these posts are just speculative and not worth basing your decision on.

[tpmx]

I guess you're probably thinking about someone like me - someone who got started in 90s, or perhaps even earlier.

I don't hate the competent developers at Microsoft (of course they exist, there have been source code leaks) - I just very strongly dislike the machine that is Microsoft. I don't think the machine has reformed.