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by Veuxdo 1474 days ago
"Invented here syndrome" is a real and pernicious problem.
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I think it probably depends on the size of organization.

NIH is a problem in old and large organizations, which actually have a large roster of homegrown solutions.

On the flip side, I feel a lot of smaller organizations have the opposite problem, like a weird phobia against nontrivial code. Like you need a special license to implement a bespoke data structure or some graph algorithm.