Ask HN: How it's like to work on products like MS Excel?

2 points by j1000 a year ago · 3 comments · 1 min read

Hi all, just being curious, how it's like to work on Excel? How big is your team? What's unusual is in this product?

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ano-ther a year ago

Here is some from the ex program manager:

Tepix a year ago

    s/How/What/

    s/it's/is it/

Why Excel in particular?

muddi900 a year ago

I am guessing Excel is popular but hated, has a lot of cruft that can't be cleaned up because there are mission critical spreadsheets depending on it.

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