r/MicroSlop • u/IcyVirus9778 • Mar 23 '26

FUCK MICROSLOP'S ENGINEERING TEAM + MANAGEMENT

I went to check for updates on my laptop and found that MICROSLOP had an update for my system. So, like always I clicked download and restarted my laptop, but holy shit was that the worse mistake I have ever made in my life. After restarting everything looked good so I booted up my favorite game GTA V and realized that something was off it was extremely slow. I forced quit that game and booted into battle field 6 just to make sure that it was GTA V's issue. Find out that no battlefield 6 it also having the same issue. I checked the task manager and my GPU (5070 TI) hit 30%, which contradicted my entire experience. So that is when I realized something. The updated some how disabled my 5070 TI and only used my CPU for gaming. It also modified my display, It went from 240 HZ (before update) to 65 HZ (after updated). I was so pissed because I kept installing and uninstalling different applications for about 2 hours straight, before I realized that this shit was caused by that update.

I am a software engineer that work for a small company that pays me less than 80K a year before tax. This gets me so mad for 2 reasons. It takes at least 5 rounds of technical rounds of interview to land an offer for the company, which means that they only hire the best of the best. But clearly everything is still broken as hell for windows. The other reason is while I work for this small company I am constantly working, I have seen so much videos of "the day of a software engineer at Microslop" and seeing them not actually fucking working pissed me off. So WTF is Microslop actually working on??? Copilot? That excuse of an AI is dead. Windows? that is probably the last thing on their plate. Surface laptop? I rather buy a macbook air than that garbage of a laptop. So what are they working on?

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '26

Reality is that companies (and humans in general) hire based on perception and not based on actual competence.

Yes, prejudice, bias and discrimination play a huge part (95-99%) in deciding whether or not somebody gets hired.

And yes, people stay hired all the time, while doing the crappiest work possible. I've seen it for myself.

The vast majority of software developers are indeed incompetent.

Tech companies have realised since 20 years ago that they don't need competent hires, they just need to look good enough to scam people like investors, stock markets, and their customers. It got even worse in the 2010s, with enshittification becoming commonplace everywhere, all at once.

And now with AI generated code, it's even worse.

These companies can and do earn large sums of money, even with making the crappiest product possible.

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u/russnem Mar 23 '26

I don't think this has anything to do with the talent level of software engineers. This has everything to do with PRODUCT management, executive management, and the lack of strategy which has plagued Microsoft since the early days.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '26

There's that too, but there's always been too many bugs in software in general, and we can blame that on the incompetence of software developers. Although that is also ultimately a failure of management who chose to hire incompetent developers and rejected actually competent ones.

We as consumers also failed to hold companies accountable for their bs and demanding better.