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Corporate culture used to be far weirder: IBM Songbooks
- ggm 4y agoIBM banned beards and shorts. Then permitted Bermuda shorts, briefly. Beards came later. Now, IBM sacks anyone over the age of 55 (only half joking)
- hindsightbias 4y agoHow many 55 year olds work at FAANGs?
- ggm 4y agoBrian Reid isn't one of them, we know that from a lawsuit with Google (he was 52 at the time) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Reid_(computer_scientist) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Reid_(computer_scientist... OTOH Vint Cerf, Rob Pike & Ken Thompson are all doing fine there. So, YMMV