Morgan Stanley

Solium was a great company. It was youthful, vibrant, fun, growing, and a great place to work.

But now Solium is dead. The creeping big corporate policy has suffocated the once energetic company.

You write code to do what the people in New York who wear suits want. You follow the stifling guidelines about what opinions you're allowed to have, and say anything out of line and you're gone.

Solium used to be a company that acknowledged that people made mistakes in their past, but we lost a lot of good people because the suits in New York don't like criminal backgrounds. Propagating the failures of the US Prison system up into Canada by corporate mandate.

You can't get a better job title or a raise there because it's impossible, but if you threaten to quit, then in less than 72 hours it's suddenly possible. You're too valuable on your team to be given a new role, but not valuable enough to be paid fairly.

No more Christmas party, because Christmas is a bad word. Heaven forbid you make a joke about something that's not politically correct.

All the eccentric and fun people have left or have been fired. The company is now a desiccated husk of its former self. An automaton puppeted by Wall Street.

Let people be themselves.

Let them express themselves as they see fit.

Let them have their team name, even if it's edgy.

Trust the devs with sudo.