If they are, it’s enormous personal red flag

Companies that don't use Outlook? All five of them? I've seen companies with varying levels of MS product integration but Outlook is pretty foundational. Now, if a company says they use SharePoint or Teams to store their documentation, run to the hills. Wikis or bust.

I'm gonna be honest, you sound like a problem employee. The companies not using Microsoft, are using Google. Which in my experience is equally or measurably worse. Just personal data points, but every avowed Microsoft hater I've ever worked with has been... difficult. Like a-drag-on-the-team-because-he-refuses-to-use-company-tools difficult. Edit: How does an aged post on this site go from +4 to -1 in the span of a few minutes?

If a company provides a Mac laptop, that to me is a green flag, if it provides a Windows laptop, that is a red flag. The best company I ever worked at, provided every software engineer both a Mac laptop and a Linux desktop as standard equipment.

Too bad Microsoft shops run the world. All the factories and shops, nearly every commercial backoffice runs windows, office/exchange and what not.

I’ve definitely noticed a correlation with low regard for labor (h1b abuse). But maybe that’s just a location thing, I’m in California where regard for labor, especially local talent, is non-existent. You know, move fast and break things like nascent tech worker unions and the state itself.

it's generally pretty remarkably bad. i think i agree. it sets a sort of psychological baseline culture that computers and their software should be shit, which is a pretty bad influence for people making software to be engaging with day in and day out.

My company uses a MSFT for domains, email, office work etc. but hands all the employees (not just engineers, HR as well) Macs. I don't know what kind of places you're working for but I'm not really interested in spending more time debugging your mattermost instance or email server instead of working on the core product I was hired to work on. I agree microsoft software is a plague but good luck convincing the people with the money to use something else lol

Hard agree. I've worked both kinds of places, I'm never working in an MS environment again for less than 7 figures.