I've known a number of folks who have worked at MS. Most of them are very bright. The stories they tell, however... oy.
For those programmers in the audience, prior to Office 2000, Excel's macro language parser was a 33,000+ line *switch statement*. ONE.
Most companies have highly unpretty code, but the stories I've heard from the bowels of Redmond take the cake.
Heck, look at the security problems... those are either outright incompetence, or because the code is so badly designed that even intelligent people can't see the problems.
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