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Re:When Finnish Teachers Work in America's Public Schools by eikenberry on Saturday December 31, 2016 @04:36PM (#13293297)
> Personally I can't work without extreme autonomy - luckily I'm a web engineer where this is basically standard.

Do you work at startups? I moved from being a back-end web engineer towards operations and systems programming to regain my autonomy as at mid sized and larger companies (who pay better than startups) the developers were all micro managed.

Re:When Finnish Teachers Work in America's Public Schools by thinkloop on Saturday December 31, 2016 @05:11PM (#13293469)
Good point, I do only work at startups, that's probably where the autonomy comes from, rather than the web engineering.