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433 points zdw | 1 comments | 21 Oct 25 15:51 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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crmd ◴[21 Oct 25 19:41 UTC] No.45660666[source]▶
One of the first things I do after getting an inquiry from a recruiter or friend referral is lookup the MX record for the company’s email domain. It is an anonymous one-command check to see if they’re a Microsoft shop.

If they are, it’s enormous personal red flag. MSFT is very popular so I’m only speaking about my own experience, but I have learned over the course of 20 years that an MSFT IT stack is highly correlated with me hating the engineering culture of an organization.

I know I am excluding a lot of companies with great engineering culture where I would thrive and who just happen to use Outlook/Sharepoint/Teams, etc. but it has had such better predictive power of rotten tech culture than any line of questioning I have come up with during interviews that I still use it.

I don’t mean any disrespect to MSFT-centric engineers out there - it’s not you it’s me.

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fujigawa ◴[21 Oct 25 20:24 UTC] No.45661217[source]▶
I'm gonna be honest, you sound like a problem employee.

The companies not using Microsoft, are using Google. Which in my experience is equally or measurably worse.

Just personal data points, but every avowed Microsoft hater I've ever worked with has been... difficult. Like a-drag-on-the-team-because-he-refuses-to-use-company-tools difficult.

Edit: How does an aged post on this site go from +4 to -1 in the span of a few minutes?

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bitmasher9 ◴[21 Oct 25 20:33 UTC] No.45661318[source]▶
Doing research on a potential employer and filtering out opportunities based on preferred toolchains is a green flag not a red flag.
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Spooky23 ◴[21 Oct 25 20:53 UTC] No.45661558[source]▶
Dev tools, sure. Self-selecting yourself out of the office/email toolset used by 90% of companies seems like a weird flex.
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philipallstar ◴[21 Oct 25 21:10 UTC] No.45661755[source]▶
Teams is just so much more horrible than Slack and Zoom, and dev teams use Slack and/or Zoom.
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cc81 ◴[22 Oct 25 08:19 UTC] No.45666207{5}[source]▶
When it was introduced Teams was pretty bad but these days it works just fine. I don't see that it being a decider really more than just historical preference.
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1. phatskat ◴[23 Oct 25 07:38 UTC] No.45679246{6}[source]▶
We have Teams and Slack and I don’t ever see anyone push for a chat in teams. Most channels are a ghost town. To me, teams would be “fine” if it’s all we had, but when you see it next to Slack it’s a no-brainer for me. Teams UI is just baaaaad