Won't work. Companies like that don't tolerate competence and creativity. Good developers will be beaten down by insecure and technically incompetent managers

Won't work. Companies like that don't tolerate competence and creativity. Good developers will be beaten down by insecure and technically incompetent managers, even worse when you involve same from other departments. Requirements documents, high level design, low level design, review by the barely computer literate, turf wars, budgets that dont include your tools, internal standards, methodologies, and consultants. Sometimes even food on the table isnt worth it. Moreover the recruiters will recognize that the good programmer will be gone in 6 months and that will be another recruiting fee down the toilet.