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I worked at Meditech as well, there was also this one: - Recursion was absolutely NOT ALLOWED because of 'the risk of crashes.' Some more info on them (edit:
by Arkeband 10y ago
I worked at Meditech as well, there was also this one:
- Recursion was absolutely NOT ALLOWED because of 'the risk of crashes.'
Some more info on them (edit: added more as I remembered them)
During my last interview, they had me read my job responsibilities and then write an essay, in front of them, "in my own words" of what I would be doing. My future manager slowly walked around the perimeter of the room reading the essay while I sat in awkward silence. I still have no idea why this was necessary.
My salary was 38,000, my boss went home after my yearly review, then called my desk phone to say "money is tight this year" so I wouldn't be getting a raise.
There was a bonus you would get each Christmas which was a small percent of your yearly salary (5%?) which was compounded each year up to the last five years. Their first few weeks of training, they have lifers come in and openly brag about their yearly bonuses, which are only really impressive if you've been there for fifteen to twenty years.
One time the CEO came down to the cafe (they make food on-campus at most of their locations) to make an appearance, and magnanimously waved people through the line - he was paying for our lunches! Money being extremely tight as a new hire, I made my way through the line, but he had decided that he had paid for enough - he held up his hand and said 'sorry' and walked off. :(
Around the end of our training, the CEO had the latest batch of new hires head down to the auditorium where he gave us a speech reminiscent of cliche multi-level marketing summit speeches, and the only question asked afterward was by a really brave girl who asked him why our wages weren't competitive with the rest of the job market. He seemed really flustered and just answered "we think they're competitive, and if someone thinks they aren't, they're toxic and will no longer be employed here." I never saw her again.
- seibelj 10y agoThat is hilarious and amazing! Thanks for the anecdotes
- reinhardt 10y agoNow I know where Initech of Office Space was inspired from, even the name matches.
- gpawl 10y agoYou know who else doesn't allow recursion? NASA. Knowing the exact size of your stack statically is hugely important in safety-critical software. http://lars-lab.jpl.nasa.gov/JPL_Coding_Standard_C.pdf http://lars-lab.jpl.nasa.gov/JPL_Coding_Standard_C.pdf
- raverbashing 10y agoExcept one is running in very limited hardware thousands of kilometers from earth, the other one running on Earth on commodity hardware This is plain incompetence on the "language" developers.