Never thought I'd see Polycom on HN. Interned for 2 complete years at Polycom, mainly writing internal tools and doing random IT work. I had little oversight an

Never thought I'd see Polycom on HN. Interned for 2 complete years at Polycom, mainly writing internal tools and doing random IT work. I had little oversight and was free to use any framework/language to solve a variety of problems -- I ended up teaching myself a ton of stuff which led to freelance gigs. Lots of cool older engineers, but I got the feeling the culture was dying off.