Back in the last century, I was the CTO at small company and I had to hire marketing and sales vice presidents. I learned pretty quickly to avoid people from l

Back in the last century, I was the CTO at small company and I had to hire marketing and sales vice presidents. I learned pretty quickly to avoid people from large companies like IBM. They never got their hands dirty and wanted a large support staff. I never really interview programmers from large companies, but I suspect the same may be true for them, e.g. they have never configured a server.