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Ask HN: How does IT department work at your company?

1 pointsby whatwasmypwdover 8 years ago
Hello there.<p>I found myself working in analytics for at a mid-size company, previously I have worked as a freelancer and have never worked in corporate before and these things sound weird.<p>I was wondering if you could tell me whether this is standard:<p>* Locally-hosted network storage ran out of capacity and I have been told that it is my problem and I should delete some (crucial) files as &quot;drive capacity is finite&quot;. My first thought was why this isn&#x27;t in the cloud already, but ok there may be some compliance issues based on old rules. Secondly, HDDs are not that expensive. How that would be handled in your company?<p>* I wanted to push some more compute-intensive analytics that go beyond the OLAP aggregates, I&#x27;ve learnt there is an idle blade that could be used just for that but IT does not comply with the request issued by my manager.<p>* Machine I work has windows with limited account which is understandable but I requested Linux VM to use more interesting tools and was rejected because that would mean unrestricted access to the guest OS (duh, that&#x27;s the point). OK, there may be some vulnerabilities.<p>So, is it normal? Or Should I flee as soon as I can?

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