I would be interested to see if this phenomenon is more prevalent among US based companies. I worked for a company with offices in Cupertino and Cambridge UK an

I would be interested to see if this phenomenon is more prevalent among US based companies. I worked for a company with offices in Cupertino and Cambridge UK and the difference in culture was noticeable. The american office seemed to demand a lot more devotion from their workers, this didn't seem the case with the brits. There was a distinction for me between coding for somebody and coding for myself. The latter always being more enjoyable. This is why I think so many programmers work on side and open-source projects.