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Id be happy to hire anyone who got fired under these circumstances

• jes5199 11y ago
  classic Id
• _delirium 11y ago
  I think most functioning engineering groups in large companies depend on a degree of it, and it's not even really a big secret, so people aren't actually often fired for it, except at the most dysfunctional places. Large companies tend to accumulate a certain degree of organizational "difficulty", but one thing that keeps everything from going to shit is that there is also usually enough flex in the system that engineers can fairly easily carve out some percentage of their total time to do things that, in their own estimation, actually need to get done, without having to get a bunch of management approvals for it. Management usually looks the other way (if they notice at all), except maybe to occasionally investigate whether anything good came out of these side projects so they can retroactively claim they commissioned it on purpose.