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I still shudder thinking about my time working as a developer on corporate IT locked down IBM leased laptops. Every time I did npm install I needed to request a

I still shudder thinking about my time working as a developer on corporate IT locked down IBM leased laptops. Every time I did npm install I needed to request admin access to Windows which took 2-3 hours to action by IBM team sitting on the other side of the world in India. One day a grey beard took pity on me and installed a Linux VM where I was admin, copied the security certs from the Windows host and I could access all corporate resources at my leisure. Never logged a single IT Helpdesk ticket after that.

abledon 7y ago
wow. that sounds horrible. did they ask you fizzbuzz or mergesort in the interview?
- maxxxxx 7y ago
  Probably not. The interviewer didn’t know how to do fizz buzz himself.
  - mxuribe 7y ago
    When has the lack of info/knowledge ever stopped interviewers from asking such questions? ;-)
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flurdy 7y ago
Yup, back then my way around corporate locked down Windows machines was to only get permission to install VMware Workstation or Virtualbox. Then fullscreen Ubuntu in a VM from then on. Slower but no restrictions. Even better when Workstation supported multiple screens.
- Macha 7y ago
  Honestly on my work machines, though we have root, the difference in FS performance tilts in favour of VMs/containers due to the slow endpoint protection affecting native FS access, and for a lot of tasks we do that outweighs any virtualisation overhead.
thrower123 7y ago
I'm curious, were you usually going through Sametime to make requests into that helpdesk?