[numpad0]

I think the point is that GP red flagging all MS shops, which is more or less just sorting companies by headcount and flagging all from top, implies incompetency at GP's side than at the company side.

Like, if a fighter jet pilot came and told all American jets are equally weak and overcomplicated and ineffective, it probably tells more about that pilot than about the jets.

I don't know if that's the case, but that would be the idea.

[autoexec]

> I think the point is that GP red flagging all MS shops, which is more or less just sorting companies by headcount

I wouldn't be surprised if many people find that smaller companies are more fun/interesting to work at, so even if this were only filtering out large companies checking for MS could be helpful.

[carlmr]

Then it's an overcomplicated company size check.

[lucketone]

Imagine small startup where ceo knows only windows and small startup where ceo uses linux.

Developer’s quality of life might differ.

[lazide]

It absolutely would. I can even tell you what type of laptop/dev equipment you’d likely get.

Hard to say what the actual office environment would end up like (plenty of toxic nerds out there), but I’ve worked for CEOs who were devs, and I even when they were terrible people, I never once hated the development part of the job.

[int_19h]

SharePoint really is that bad though (and I say this as someone who used to develop for it as a platform).

The fact that it's so widespread in our corporate culture is more indicative of how enshittified it is. Now, realistically, we might not be able to avoid it because of that, but let's not pretend that it's not shit.

[kapone]

It fills a niche. What’s else does?

Yes, it’s not great, but so what?

[croes]

How about using tools that do their job great instead of one tool that can do them all but none of them good.

It tells the company values price more than capability.

I asked in my company why we use SharePoint and the answer was name a better alternative. So I asked an better alternative to do what? I never got an answer.

[mindok]

If the objective is to put files where you can’t find them again, I think you’d be hard pressed to find a better alternative.

[eitland]

Except any plain file server that you can connect to via ordinary protocols?

[linksnapzz]

Lotus/IBM/HCL Domino.

[cachius]

What niche?

[dijit]

The niche of trying to do everything and being good at none of it.

File hosting, web application hosting and integrating with Office.

[mcswell]

What else? LaTeX Beamer, for one; Libre Office Impress for another.

[dpark]

You are confusing SharePoint with PowerPoint.

[mcswell]

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