I work for Microsoft (not on Teams). I actually don’t mind Teams much, it does the job and doesn’t seem much worse than Slack. But the crappy search is absolutely my biggest pet peeve.
For being descended from (and forcibly superseding) what was once the genericized trademark for video chat (Skype), it's pretty egregious that "not much worse than Slack" is the best Microsoft can do.
All Microsoft products have terrible search, Teams isn’t exceptional in this regard.
If you work at Microsoft, and have any influence on the WinDev team, please tell them that the Start menu search is simply shameful.
There hasn’t been a single major Windows release — server or client — capable of consistently, reliably, and correctly finding start menu items. Worse, every major release is broken in new and creative ways. This is especially true for a fresh install, because apparently a 64-core server needs several days to index 500 KB of text. (Microsoft support told me this with a straight face, almost verbatim.)
Seriously, what is that team doing!?
Is this the same code that’s in Outlook and Teams search too?
