I think this would have been useful with some code. My experience with Bazel is that you need a BUILD file in each subdirectory or something like that and every time I add a file I have to add it to that BUILD file.

Exceedingly tedious to use and has poor support in Clion.

It is likely that I don't have the constraints that this company has. The last time I tried this in Java I had to replicate my package dependency graph in Bazel. It was exceedingly pointless.

I found an example repo for rust and Bazel and it is just as tedious as I recall https://github.com/laramiel/bazel-example-rust