Don't you then have to maintain a copy of all the dependencies and input data on your personal laptop? I can't imagine myself being productive this way, even for small standalone projects where cloning everything to the personal laptop is feasible. This sounds awful and the company IDE must be even worse somehow.

That seems unnecessarily complex and time-consuming. Unless your company's work machine is locked down and you can't be productive on it...

If the company IDE is annoying to use, then rewriting it is probably a net time saver. The time consuming part of coding is rarely typing the code, afterall.

Exactly. I need Intellij to be productive in such a horrifically spaghetti code base

Reminds me of a project many years ago where I was forced to use a companies crappy home-grown CMS that deployed all their microsites, they had a weird code editor that they expected you to develop in inside the CMS. I wrote a selenium script that would login and upload the contents of my local files into the editor.

I wonder if that's against your employment contract.

Probably, but I am more likely to be fired for not doing work

You might get fired plus sued.

This is a sentiment that is very typical among Singaporeans. I suspect it has something to do with the political/business climate over there.

While the USA is also litigation happy, it actually takes an incredibly high amount of deliberate destruction for an employer to succeed in suing an employee.

I'm just an immigrant here.

I don't think it's very likely you'd get sued, but I wouldn't want to risk it against well funded adversaries with expensive lawyers.

same but i copy paste