Birth and Death of Microsoft Bing
Microsoft's DNA is: slow release cycles and building "solid" products. To the contrary, Gaurav is notorious for saying, "you ship or you suck", taking the emphasis away from the framework builders. Your promotion was solely dependent on the amount of stuff you ship and the impact you make. (that's not too much news to web startups?) They had weekly release cycles - faster than Google back then. The rule on the ground was if code breaks or does not ship in time, the engineer is held responsible, No - not the test, not the project manager. Engineer should drive everything.
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On engineering culture of Bing, back and then. Maybe it's just because the article was written by a former employee, but the message is clear: Bing has lost its vibe.
