[redisman]

The kind of company that sets up a neurodiversity program will also not be the kind of company OP is describing he likes. Big, slow, rich companies can do stuff like that but the development work will be more bureaucratic. Small startups have you wear many hats and always put out fires and cobble things together to a solution that’s fast and kind of works. But those companies will never invest heavily into HR initiatives until they have like 1000 people.

[karmajunkie]

This is a really important point. I left a job after 3 months despite a program like this for a number of reasons: * the "program" was mainly lip-service, as far as I could tell there was no meaningful impact in daily management * the company was so bureaucratic that it took me two weeks to get a development environment set up for lack of an MFA token setup, and that was just the tip of the iceberg. * There were a lot of elegant abstractions over code that never should have been written, which demanded weeks worth of just learning topology for the application * Political and ego conflict meant that any change I tried to make got shot down not for technical reasons but because I "hadn't paid my dues" for credibility.

I've done much better with early- and mid-stage startups with lots of problems to be handled and all the encouragement in the world to go after them, even without these "neurodivergence programs". Of course, you're getting into another world of life problems (e.g. these companies rarely have parental leave worth mentioning) but you can usually work around the edges.

[throwaway6532]

>Big, slow, rich companies can do stuff like that but the development work will be more bureaucratic.

Ding ding ding ding ding ding! You hit the nail on the head. I'm currently working at such a company and you're 100% right. And the bureaucratic nature of it all drives me pretty mental. It's not a good environment for me at all. I'm going back to a smaller company.