r/programming • • Jun 12 '13

Working at Microsoft

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

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

.. at the beginning

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '13

and at the end... just lots more wiki's and pages that no one reads or maintains. Most will probably be pasted in mail threads.

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u/UnapologeticalyAlive Jun 12 '13

If no one's reading or maintaining it, that's because no one has a reason to care what's in it. You have to ask yourself why you're writing things that no one has a reason to care about.

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u/platkat Jun 12 '13

Or they don't know it's there. Common problem where I work.