Ask HN: How does IT department work at your company?
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.
I was wondering if you could tell me whether this is standard:
* 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 "drive capacity is finite". My first thought was why this isn'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?
* I wanted to push some more compute-intensive analytics that go beyond the OLAP aggregates, I'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.
* 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's the point). OK, there may be some vulnerabilities.
So, is it normal? Or Should I flee as soon as I can?