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> Not a collaborative coder? No room for you here. Not a people person? No room for you here. Want to use the latest technologies? No room for you here. That's

• abc_lisper 11y ago
  Eh, Idk if it's that bad in US; if anything the other countries are worse. If you want to scratch that itch find a startup that uses latest and greatest stack.
• Angostura 11y ago
  Of course there's room for individualism. But if you're going to make the rest of your coworkers lives a misery, you'll find that you'll be expressing your individualism in your own one-person startup.
  • jnbiche 11y ago
    How is doing something like re-writing a system in your off hours making your co-workers miserable? I mean sure, if you then proceed to bug your boss every day to adopt the new system after he carefully reviewed it and rejected it, I'm with you. And she lists several "harmful" practices like this. In short, taking initiative? Nope, we don't like that here in corporate America. Doing what you're told and minimize risk. Don't actually try to make us money or anything.
    • oldmanjay 11y ago
      It's interesting that you feel comfortable extrapolating one person's opinion to represent corporate America.
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      • jfoutz 11y ago
        They're not. Corporate America is pretty risk averse. 90% of any top 500 would freak out about that. Imagine a guy in the legal department rewriting the Eula in his spare time, or the hr director rolling in with a new employee handbook. Software is a little special, because you can still kinda get away with that.
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