Ask HN: How it's like to work on products like MS Excel?

[j1000]

Hi all, just being curious, how it's like to work on Excel? How big is your team? What's unusual is in this product?

[ano-ther]

Here is some from the ex program manager:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/03/19/two-stories/

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev...

[Tepix]

    s/How/What/

    s/it's/is it/

Why Excel in particular?

[muddi900]

I am guessing Excel is popular but hated, has a lot of cruft that can't be cleaned up because there are mission critical spreadsheets depending on it.