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I saw IT policy cause the near-downfall of a software company after it was absorbed by a bank. As you would guess, overbearing security policies came in nearly

I saw IT policy cause the near-downfall of a software company after it was absorbed by a bank. As you would guess, overbearing security policies came in nearly overnight. Development had to be done on machines with (practically) no internet connection, approved devices were crappy laptops with no memory, developers couldn't access systems to diagnose issues, looking away from your machine for more than 5 minutes had it locked. Everything just took five to ten times longer. You hear people say "the company still pays you for your time", but of course job satisfaction is important, and the company just hemorrhaged developers.

vips7L 4y ago
My startup was bought by a large corporation late last year. My laptop finally died a month ago and I was issued a new one from corporate IT and they really messed Windows up. Our desktop app that we develop won’t even run on it. I have to change my password every 2 months, I can’t change power settings without an admin account (it’s locked on balanced), ssh wasn’t working because I needed admin to start the service, I can’t change which programs run at startup, I can’t uninstall programs that they’ve preinstalled even if I don’t use them, they automatically install/reinstall Java 8 which messes up my JAVA_HOME environment variable and I’ll randomly have to fix it so I can compile my Java 11 code base, everything in my home folder automatically goes to One Drive (rip node_modules), the fan runs at 100% no matter what because of some shitty corporate back ground processes. It’s absolutely maddening. I’m going to reinstall my own copy of Windows or buy my own machine soon.
- joezydeco 4y ago
  My company thankfully allows engineers to be admins on their machine with the right amount of begging and persistence. But it still sucks. And now my corp Win10 machine is so clogged up with firewalls, antivirals, ZScaler and CarbonBlack whatever the fuck that is that the machine regularly stalls and just sits there for seconds at a time. In the middle of typing. It's put a dragchute on my productivity but they're paying me so fuck it.
semicolon_storm 4y ago
Sounds like standard SOC2 cargo cult security.You're not secure until you spin around 5 times and say the magic incantation while documenting that you've done it for the audit.

vips7L 4y ago

My startup was bought by a large corporation late last year. My laptop finally died a month ago and I was issued a new one from corporate IT and they really messed Windows up. Our desktop app that we develop won’t even run on it. I have to change my password every 2 months, I can’t change power settings without an admin account (it’s locked on balanced), ssh wasn’t working because I needed admin to start the service, I can’t change which programs run at startup, I can’t uninstall programs that they’ve preinstalled even if I don’t use them, they automatically install/reinstall Java 8 which messes up my JAVA_HOME environment variable and I’ll randomly have to fix it so I can compile my Java 11 code base, everything in my home folder automatically goes to One Drive (rip node_modules), the fan runs at 100% no matter what because of some shitty corporate back ground processes. It’s absolutely maddening. I’m going to reinstall my own copy of Windows or buy my own machine soon.

joezydeco 4y ago
My company thankfully allows engineers to be admins on their machine with the right amount of begging and persistence. But it still sucks. And now my corp Win10 machine is so clogged up with firewalls, antivirals, ZScaler and CarbonBlack whatever the fuck that is that the machine regularly stalls and just sits there for seconds at a time. In the middle of typing. It's put a dragchute on my productivity but they're paying me so fuck it.

semicolon_storm 4y ago

Sounds like standard SOC2 cargo cult security.You're not secure until you spin around 5 times and say the magic incantation while documenting that you've done it for the audit.