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I work at a bank and I can tell you that nobody is emailing or sharing files to their personal devices. Doing so would have you fired on the spot. At my workpl

I work at a bank and I can tell you that nobody is emailing or sharing files to their personal devices. Doing so would have you fired on the spot. At my workplace apps are whitelisted and it's honestly not a big deal. Very rarely do I find myself in a situation where I can't access the tools that I need.

adrian_b 4y ago
Working at a bank and working as a design engineer or low-level programmer have extremely different requirements for a work computer. My experience, after working in many big and small companies in several countries and multiple continents matches perfectly what the above poster has said, i.e. at least for any kind of design or testing work that involves external hardware, the only way to get anything important done is to circumvent any restrictive IT policies, which are always made by people who might have worked in a bank, so they have no idea about how a computer is used for designing or testing hardware or software for embedded computers. Most of the work that I have ever done could not be done on company-managed computers, so I usually had to do it on my own computer and transfer then the results to the company computer, which was used only for communication inside the company, through e-mail/Teams/internal file servers etc., and for writing reports or other documents.
_trampeltier 4y ago
I work in a factory in industry automation and we also never ever use with personal devices. That said, it is possible for some few guys in the the tech to get an local admin account to install software, or even just to change IP-addresses. For ex. often VPNs (external people can connect to a machine) don't work and so we had several times the case a machine did stand still because of it. Then of course we not just make a link with a phone. We make a mail to the CEO and he take care of it with the IT.

adrian_b 4y ago

Working at a bank and working as a design engineer or low-level programmer have extremely different requirements for a work computer. My experience, after working in many big and small companies in several countries and multiple continents matches perfectly what the above poster has said, i.e. at least for any kind of design or testing work that involves external hardware, the only way to get anything important done is to circumvent any restrictive IT policies, which are always made by people who might have worked in a bank, so they have no idea about how a computer is used for designing or testing hardware or software for embedded computers. Most of the work that I have ever done could not be done on company-managed computers, so I usually had to do it on my own computer and transfer then the results to the company computer, which was used only for communication inside the company, through e-mail/Teams/internal file servers etc., and for writing reports or other documents.

_trampeltier 4y ago

I work in a factory in industry automation and we also never ever use with personal devices. That said, it is possible for some few guys in the the tech to get an local admin account to install software, or even just to change IP-addresses. For ex. often VPNs (external people can connect to a machine) don't work and so we had several times the case a machine did stand still because of it. Then of course we not just make a link with a phone. We make a mail to the CEO and he take care of it with the IT.