Whats it like to work at a dinasaur company?
Jul 6, 2021
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I've always wondered what its like to work at a dinasaur zombie company like Intel, IBM
I think I would like to join them when I'm 55. I've heard from my friends who worked at Intel that they were able to pull off a 10 hour/week and leetcode during work time. Yes its unbelievable how chill these companies can be.
I would like to get some first hand experiences.
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You spend 60-70hr/week trying to deliver unrealistic projects because the execs are Sales-oriented. They have no repercussions if they sell undeliverable work.
If you’re on a dev team, you spend a lot of time arguing about the scope of the work and getting the bare minimum of work done.
If you’re on an ops team, you will have 1 or 2 people in a team of ~10-25 that are capable of doing the work. Everyone else is a butt in a seat that is required to meet the contractual requirements. I remember dozens of incidents where teammates - being billed at hundred of $/day - brought down Prod because they couldn’t follow a basic SOP to restart a service or deploy a new release.
Financial engineering at it’s finest.