Chiming in as another rando MS employee who works on languages, while I think "ms will own him" is thoroughly overly dramatic, I made this account to express honest surprise that you feel like you have leeway with little clout.
At least in my group our ability to do what we want was directly corresponding how connected/influential our sponsor was, and absent that, I have almost no ability to do what I feel is right, even if I have data backing it up, if the powers that be are in opposition.
I don't want to paint this as some universal ms-doing-terrible-things statement, just that I don't personally feel like I have much freedom to assert philosophy or ideology, and I've seen well respected individuals in engineering even up to and above principal/partner die on comparatively minor hills before which makes me think it's not just me.
And while I'm being dangerously candid, this to me seems like a prestige hire much like carmack at facebook, and I chuckle at the ado being given in both directions in this thread. I will be pleasantly surprised if this motivates more python support but expect neither good nor bad.
At least in my group our ability to do what we want was directly corresponding how connected/influential our sponsor was, and absent that, I have almost no ability to do what I feel is right, even if I have data backing it up, if the powers that be are in opposition.
I don't want to paint this as some universal ms-doing-terrible-things statement, just that I don't personally feel like I have much freedom to assert philosophy or ideology, and I've seen well respected individuals in engineering even up to and above principal/partner die on comparatively minor hills before which makes me think it's not just me.
And while I'm being dangerously candid, this to me seems like a prestige hire much like carmack at facebook, and I chuckle at the ado being given in both directions in this thread. I will be pleasantly surprised if this motivates more python support but expect neither good nor bad.