That is a great one. Many people don't think of it, but in many corp jobs something as simple as hey lets use git or subversion, stomp on so many cooperate poli

That is a great one. Many people don't think of it, but in many corp jobs something as simple as hey lets use git or subversion, stomp on so many cooperate policies that you can be summarily dismissed for doing so. If you can't install the software that you need in a timely manner run don't walk. I remember I was at a company that was using a very old version of WASAD it was like 3 versions back. It took 1.5 years of fighting all the way to the top just to allow the developers to use Eclipse which was at 3 at the time. For those that cant recall Eclipse 3 was a major rewrite and WASAD was already on an old version of Eclipse so to be 3 version back on WASAD meant that you where around 5 versions back from where Eclipse was at. The crazy part about it was that I was a senior director, I was two positions in the org chart from the CIO, and my role reported directly to the CIO. So if it is that much of a fight for a senior director I imagine that it is futile from a developer to take up that fight.