[noname120]

Well to be fair Steve Ballmer is a terrible leader and if he had to take the tech interviews he wouldn't have passed and Microsoft wouldn't have stagnated for 10 years, before Satya Nadella took over and brought the company back on its feet.

[ywvcbk]

He’s probably a decent leader just not a very good CEO for a company that needs to develop new products and enter new markets to continue growing rather than to try and squeeze every remaining penny from their current customers.

[smolder]

Satya Nadella has been good for the stock price and is probably a better leader than Ballmer, but hasn't made MS into a respectable company.

[high_na_euv]

Many Satyas successes started under Ballmer.

[noname120]

Could you give some examples?

[high_na_euv]

Biggest one: Azure, then Bing

https://blog.jovono.com/p/ballmer-microsoft-underrated