The comments in that post are full of untruths. ASML is a huge company so no one person can talk about all of it.
As with all large companies there will be great bits and bits that can be done better and the larger the company gets and the more critical the software is the slower some parts will be done. There's always room for improvement. And ASML has improved immensely over the last 10 years. In the teams that I've worked in the caliber of the people has been extremely high. The code reviews are rigorous and that's a good thing. There are a lot of extremely smart people working for ASML. To call it Dutch is interesting, most of the teams I've worked in are international with less Dutch than foreign people in them.
ASML has changed from a much less interesting company when I joined to a very interesting company with respect to the software stack. Yes, I believe there's still lots of room for improvement but that's the case with all big companies.
But heck, I don't know about everything, I've only worked there 12 years.
Yeah there are a lot of silos. Partly that's by design, partly that's a an arguably bad part of it's culture. I'm in a position where I can see a lot of them work in isolation, all choosing to use their own tooling: programming languages, frameworks ides, version control systems... Indeed no one team works quite like the other.
As with all large companies there will be great bits and bits that can be done better and the larger the company gets and the more critical the software is the slower some parts will be done. There's always room for improvement. And ASML has improved immensely over the last 10 years. In the teams that I've worked in the caliber of the people has been extremely high. The code reviews are rigorous and that's a good thing. There are a lot of extremely smart people working for ASML. To call it Dutch is interesting, most of the teams I've worked in are international with less Dutch than foreign people in them.
ASML has changed from a much less interesting company when I joined to a very interesting company with respect to the software stack. Yes, I believe there's still lots of room for improvement but that's the case with all big companies.
But heck, I don't know about everything, I've only worked there 12 years.