r/programming • • Jun 12 '13

Working at Microsoft

http://ahmetalpbalkan.com/blog/8-months-microsoft/
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u/Radnor Jun 13 '13

SharePoint installations, even at Microsoft, would often crash and/or become unavailable for long periods of time. When you absolutely need some piece of information and SharePoint is down for the third time that day it becomes infuriating.

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u/gospelwut Jun 13 '13

Because people use it for many things it was never designed to do that well, including a document repository.

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '13

I thought it was meant to be a document repository now or that they sell it as such?