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I had a high up at Microsoft try to get me in trouble with my boss because I tried (appropriately) raising concerns that Azure was an near-impossible to target platform for OSS cloud software due to basic missing features. I had another thread with a higher up, with Russinovich on it, in which the principal manager lied repeatedly over, and over, and over about the entire shape of the VMSS API. They shipped anyway and have spent years adapting that API in the exact way I pointed out, and of course now have to support both. I had a team ask me not to ship a feature for (open source software you've all undoubtedly heard of) because they wanted me to use their Azure-proprietary flavor instead. I'm pretty sure that feature never even shipped because that team had designed it so poorly that it wasn't even suitable for tiny deployments.

Microsoft is excellent as using young, passionate folks, especially ones that don't have experience in advocating for themselves, and pretty terrible at promoting or rewarding individual contributors doing their best to push things forward. Oh and my total comp was garbage. I joined a startup and got a 40% bump without even asking.