[SubuSS]

How is that working out?

FWIW - I spent about 7 years in MS and now >5 in Amazon - I overall like the MS model, at least from a developer perspective.

It gave you a lot of time to focus on getting your complicated piece right with unit tests - and you could leave the integration tests / PM'ing to the respective folks. Amazon is like where Bing is going - but the end result is that it ends up favoring breadth oriented folks more than depth folks. That's ok if you are building a business logic / app tier, system teams are a different story.

For the same reason, the latest MS path doesn't seem right to me. It feels like they are taking the wrong lessons from startups / AWS.

But again, it has been 5 years since and I don't have the big picture - so I guess I will wait and watch.

[grouma]

Although I have a couple friends at Amazon, I was unaware that their development model is what Microsoft is aiming for. The points you make don't bother me right now since I am so young in my career. I haven't developed deep expertise in any particular area yet. In fact, one of my strongest assets is the ability to quickly pick up technologies. Hopefully this will serve me well when I eventually have to jump from system to system with the new development model.