alt Hacker NewsI see you never worked in enterprise consulting with either laptops or cloud VMs managed by customer IT, and where elevated actions require either IT tickets, or elevation tools with description fields why the operation is required, with development done with specific team accounts.
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joquarky • today at 3:04 PM
Why would anyone lack enough dignity to sign up for working in that kind of environment?
I would rather live in a shopping cart tent under a bridge.
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Quite on the contrary, in fact.
Sectors involved in, in no particular order: government, financial, telecom, energy (gas and electric), manufacturing (large european conglomerates), healthcare, logistics
In fact I was the one usually helping IT Teams put the torture devices and policies you’re subjected to in place lol.
Banks would usually give us laptops with smart card readers and only allowed access to their VPN from a limited set of public IP addresses.
Govt was a bit more lax, but same principles applied, was really fun doing any kind of work over a laggy VNC.
My favourite one was probably where you’d have to hop from one Azure cloud VM, to Citrix to a bastion windows box, off of which you’d RDP to the actual work VM only to putty to the actual damn Linux box you cared about.
Energy sector was more lax, they let us set up a GitLab instance and a small CICD setup to which we’d push the code developed on our local boxes.
Oh and the ones I mentioned - they usually ask us what tools we wanted on our boxes as well.