[oldmanhorton]

I've worked adjacent to windows for a few years, and it's not perfect. They have mountains of legacy requirements by the very nature of being windows and other comments about siloed culture can often be true, though I think this is true in most large companies. With that being said, windows kernel developers are by and large extremely skilled and passionate, and working on that team is pretty unique within most of software engineering - rarely do you have the ability to impact so many people.

The concern for me would be the fact that windows is no longer a fully offline experience running on people's desks. A large part of the kernel team is working on features that only benefit Azure and you may get some of the same services exposure there as you claim to be so burnt out on.

Asking to discuss the role more with the team to get a better sense of what they're doing, how they're doing it, and who their customers are seems like the path forward IMO.

[jiggawatts]

> A large part of the kernel team is working on features that only benefit Azure

And the IIS team, and the networking team, and…