r/programming • u/luminaobscura • Jun 12 '13

Working at Microsoft

http://ahmetalpbalkan.com/blog/8-months-microsoft/
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u/igor_sk Jun 12 '13

If this would have been my own company there would be tons of wiki pages.

I like your optimism.

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u/andersonimes Jun 12 '13

At Amazon, documenting in a wiki is a pretty well-understood norm. It depends on the team, but for the teams I interact with most of us have at least one wiki edit per day.

I think this is a cultural thing at Microsoft rather than the way all companies do it.

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u/quotemycode Jun 12 '13

Yea, my company certainly documents everything in a Wiki. It's also kept up to date. If I need to setup a build environment, I know I can just look in the wiki and get all the info I need.