I started at a company that uses ADO (migrating to GitHub this year) and it took me like 20 minutes to figure out how to change repositories in the UI… idk how they built something that unuser friendly

You do know that corporations also use terms like “lol”, “aka” or even “ic” meaning integrated circuits.

No acronym is universal.

You can overload acronyms with dozens of different meanings.

But still, IC is common as individual contributor. Case in point: Microsoft uses it as a filter on their career site. Not exactly a small company…

IC is a common term used for non-manager type roles.

In my degree, we had to write kernel mods and device drivers

I’m honestly surprised the MIC would let things deteriorate this much for the US defense industry. The next 15 years will be really bad for them, especially if European based companies can supplant their contracts other globally

Purely from a business perspective, the MIC must like the war in Ukraine and I would have thought their united lobbying efforts would be enough to save Ukraine from 0 US aid…