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

2 points by j1000 1 year ago | 3 comments

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?

ano-ther 1 year ago |

Here is some from the ex program manager:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/03/19/two-stories/

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev...

Tepix 1 year ago |

    s/How/What/

    s/it's/is it/

Why Excel in particular?

muddi900 1 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.