This is one of the reasons why "Can you describe what I'd need to do to buy a $50 book?" is a deceptively good question to ask during job interviews (or earlier) for getting a read on how a company treats engineers, what their tolerance for process-for-sake-of-process is, etc.https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1103871152236060672 …
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*points to a copy of that book on a shelf in the office* "Just take that one?" Would be a pretty good answer too.
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Having an extremely well stocked library full of the latest technical books and journals is also a feature. Another thing I took for granted in dread corporate world.
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We specifically address book purchasing during dev onboarding to reinforce that we mean “you’re an adult and we trust you”. There’s three options: - buy and expense - ask for access to the corporate card and buy it - get someone with access to the corporate card to buy for you
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We have basically the same options except for the middle one which worked well until it didn’t and created its own issues.
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