Give me a task, a deadline, a budget, and get out of the way. No meticulous, nasty meetings where everyone is playing one-upmanship, or buzzword bingo with gems like "synergistic" or using stupid phrases like "we tuned x and boom goes the dynamite", no talk of cross-functional team spearheading, no sharing an office with people who won't stop farting despite the nasty looks and obvious can of Glade. There are no laborious crunch days trying to get something out the door.
What more could I ask for? Sure, the pay is lower. If I think I can build or code something better than what we have, I'm given the green light to do a working prototype. I get to work on cool projects that I often come up with. I now focus on non-profits and I couldn't be happier. I swore then I'd never work for another massive IT company and left after 6 months. There was a sense of fear in the air that took a month or two to sense. They almost seemed unable to deviate from the script. These people seemed so stodgy, so incapable of having a bit of fun. By week three I knew I had made a mistake. I fought and got through three interviews. I thought it would be so fun to work there. I worked for Microsoft about 10 years back.
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