Re:Questions to ask a company during a job interview
by WorldMaker on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @01:39PM
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I think that is certainly a part of it, but I think there is a part of it that is much, much worse than that. Every time Microsoft reduces the number of user-hostile GPOs, there are certain Fortune 500 companies that complain (presumably in a lot of cash). Almost every GPO probably has at least one BDSM fetishist of IT Admin with too much corporate budget cash and not enough sense.
But a big problem is how cult-like certain GPO setups have become. Asking my IT Department casually, 90% of the worst GPO settings we enforce at my current job are "mandated" in the agreements and contracts with a certain, supposedly prophetic (but unarguably profiteer) vendor of over-priced databases and accounting software "to keep their software working as intended". (Which may be quite accurate if their software is truly intended for the slow torture they provide from a user's perspective.)
But a big problem is how cult-like certain GPO setups have become. Asking my IT Department casually, 90% of the worst GPO settings we enforce at my current job are "mandated" in the agreements and contracts with a certain, supposedly prophetic (but unarguably profiteer) vendor of over-priced databases and accounting software "to keep their software working as intended". (Which may be quite accurate if their software is truly intended for the slow torture they provide from a user's perspective.)