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You are given adequate hardware to work on, and there doesn’t seem to be any trouble with funding for servers or deployment processes. If you like having a job where you can kick your feet up and do nothing, this is the place. Nothing moves quickly at all, and there’s plenty of time to twiddle your thumbs. Personally, that’s not the environment I want to be in. I want to move quickly and build cool things, not wait around for weeks on end while next to nothing gets accomplished.

Your every move is surveilled. You cannot install anything on your machine without prior approval, or you are at risk of being fired without warning. All development moves incredibly slowly, and there is a significant amount of tech debt in every application. The deployment process for all applications is monolithic and pre-determined. There is little leeway to differ from the corporate-approved processes, and even if you did have permission, it would be no small undertaking to migrate even just a single app to a better process. All network traffic must go through the VPN. It bottlenecks your internet speed. The company is married to Azure and will not consider other (better) platforms. Nothing is well documented.

What exactly is the draw for top talent? You’ve slowed everything down so much that you move at a literal fraction of the speed you could. That needs to change.