FWIW - I spent about 7 years in MS and now >5 in Amazon - I overall like the MS model, at least from a developer perspective.
It gave you a lot of time to focus on getting your complicated piece right with unit tests - and you could leave the integration tests / PM'ing to the respective folks. Amazon is like where Bing is going - but the end result is that it ends up favoring breadth oriented folks more than depth folks. That's ok if you are building a business logic / app tier, system teams are a different story.
For the same reason, the latest MS path doesn't seem right to me. It feels like they are taking the wrong lessons from startups / AWS.
But again, it has been 5 years since and I don't have the big picture - so I guess I will wait and watch.
FWIW - I spent about 7 years in MS and now >5 in Amazon - I overall like the MS model, at least from a developer perspective.
It gave you a lot of time to focus on getting your complicated piece right with unit tests - and you could leave the integration tests / PM'ing to the respective folks. Amazon is like where Bing is going - but the end result is that it ends up favoring breadth oriented folks more than depth folks. That's ok if you are building a business logic / app tier, system teams are a different story.
For the same reason, the latest MS path doesn't seem right to me. It feels like they are taking the wrong lessons from startups / AWS.
But again, it has been 5 years since and I don't have the big picture - so I guess I will wait and watch.