Worked at a bank for a year on a greenfield project. They had walls painted in primary colors, an open workspace (for some employees), and typical bullshittery

Worked at a bank for a year on a greenfield project. They had walls painted in primary colors, an open workspace (for some employees), and typical bullshittery like 8 hour hack-a-thons which output directly into the trash bin. The main issue with working there: it's the Dead Sea. No one is interested in working. They're interested in retaining control of their domain. As a result, nothing gets done. We spent a year integrating with two systems. The data we aggregated was never used.