Poor people, must be soul crushing to have a well-paid, 9-5 job with technologies that don't have an eternal carrot on a stick that prevents them from achieving mastery at their trade.
Where is the excitement of working during the weekend to make sure the dozens of random libraries npm downloaded as dependencies of the one you need to display a neon outline in the list of products are compliant?
One of the best places I ever worked. Really good engineers, and a really calm workplace where you are given the time and space to do good work. No dysfunctional 2 week sprints or hours of "agile ceremony" madness, etc. Of course this was 20 years go, and maybe it depended on the team you were on. I don't know if it is the same now. The only time I had a problem there is when my manager came in and said I had to take down my anti-microsoft sign. Idk why - maybe they were trying to do some deal with them.
Worked there in the 90s. Probably the most professional engineering environment I've ever seen. And compared to what you might expect of the time and place, quite egalitarian. My boss and half the team were women, and there were several people from unusual backgrounds that would be considered economically disadvantaged these days. Everyone had an office. No politics. Just GSD.
Nah it's the same now. IBM was my first tech job straight from construction/concreting. Work environment was a dream, an absolute pleasure. Got opportunities to pump out training and work on many parts of the stack way further up than I expected. I was a remote area hardware tech. This was bout half a decade ago. Best job I've ever had.
There is some serious engineering in what they do -- CPU and memory architecture, OS design and implementation, high speed networking, homomorphic encryption are all areas I've collabed with IBM. I assure you, the average engineer quality at IBM I've worked with has been incredibly high and the people themselves very _very_ creative.
Where is the excitement of working during the weekend to make sure the dozens of random libraries npm downloaded as dependencies of the one you need to display a neon outline in the list of products are compliant?