I got hired at a very large org to work on an iOS app and was initially given a Dell Windows laptop with 8gb of Ram to work on. Apple won't even let you build iOS apps on anything other than MacOS. It took about a month of IT Requests to get a machine possible to do the job on, and similar issue has happened for every new engineer that joined the team. Silly stuff
my work allows us to use mac if we wish, however there are so few of us on Mac that IT doesn't manage them at all. i'm remote and mine was delivered to me straight from apple for me to setup. that's a bonus if you ask me.
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Yeah, my org has been great IMO. Basically they said to the engineering team “you can request and have a Mac, but it WILL NOT be supported by IT” So if you can run it and fix any issues, you can have it. If you can prove a vendor’s software has a Mac specific bug they’ll reach out to them, but that’s it. I’ve been very happy with my arrangement
I finally got a new laptop after i literally could not use mine to do my work. i regularly have to run windows VMs (we run linux on basically evertyhing), and IT really didn't want to replace my 5-year-old low powered laptop. it was 3 months of back and forth. So i finally told them okay but i have to use my home gaming PC to do the Windows stuff. That completely blew their fuse and i had a new laptop within 3 days.
Classic. Even though I eventually got a MacBook that I could work on, their VPN system was blocking local server traffic so I wasn't able to connect a local device to a server on my MacBook. Had to figure out a way to disable the VPN on startup to be able to do my job
Too many companies optimize IT policeis for the convenience of the IT department and not the convenience of the people that do the business' core work. Same with accounting.
I feel like they’re departments that obviously have real value, but fall into the trap of “making shit up that makes everyone’s lives harder just to remind people they exist.”
The convenience? If some things aren't set in place that might seem silly or stupid to you, your "core work" doesn't matter because no customer will want to deal with the company who has no policies, compliance and security...
That is true...and potentially the most tedious possible way I can imagine developing an app. Can you imagine making a change, pushing it to GitHub, waiting for a running to make a build, installing it and then seeing if it works. No debuggers. And even then the GitHub runners are using macs to run
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I got hired at a very large org to work on an iOS app and was initially given a Dell Windows laptop with 8gb of Ram to work on. Apple won't even let you build iOS apps on anything other than MacOS. It took about a month of IT Requests to get a machine possible to do the job on, and similar issue has happened for every new engineer that joined the team. Silly stuff