[dasmoth]

Where I work you just report to the tech lead every 2 or 3 weeks.

Sounds pretty much perfect to me (although I also know people who would go stir-crazy like this...)

Can I ask: what sort of company is this? Dedicated software operation or a tech department inside a company doing something else?

[don_draper]

It's an engineering company that does math/science stuff along with regular software development.