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It is laughably easy to fake those green squares that for a while, ages ago, I had some commit counts like 14000 or so... every single day.

There are so many tools to also fake human like commit counts for those pretty green squares that if I came to know of my senior engineers hiring on that basis, their estimation as interviewers in my eyes would take a nosedive.

I'm not a developer, but I can certainly understand your position. It's unfortunate that companies rely on this type of company to decide if someone is worth hiring. There's a need for companies to have streamlines that look at the actual capabilities and values of potential hires, regardless of where the evidences are hosted.

This world is way too broken, and getting worse every day.

So your company either works with Microsoft or has a weird idea of security. Teams does not work without taking home to Microsoft. My company tried everything but couldn’t make it work, so they extended their Skype for business service for some years.

I hope they switch to Linux when this is over.

The company I worked at got acquired by a big tech company. We're switching from Google suite to Microsoft, Mac to Windows, Slack to Teams, etc. It's pretty painful as transitions go, and if not for golden handcuffs I'd be gone.

I'm not sure if I'll ever be happy with Visual Studio though, so I use Jetbrains Rider.

Username checks out :)

Ah, the age old Microsoft strategy of bundling.