any company will let you expense a few hundred dollars for a tool you use literally every day many hours a day. if you’re having trouble they are not good to work for or you’re asking the wrong way

> if you’re having trouble they are not good to work for

That is true, but also in some places that is also the status quo: especially in countries where the developers don't get 6 figure salaries and don't create as much value to their respective companies.

how is this not common sense

I concur.

if a company wont pay for an IDE for there developers then I certainly won't be paying for it out of my pocket.

if they can't justify paying ~$100 for my ide of choice, then they are costing them selves far more in lost productivity, and that's not my problem.

IDEA is 650€/ year for our company.

Not saying Company should not pay that, but it's not $100

I dunno I've been in plenty of situations where a department head will literally beg me to buy things so they can reach the same budget spend as last year so their budget isn't slashed (DoD), and have seen the same situation in VC-backed startups looking to come up with tax write offs. Businesses for the most part love spending money and would rather do that than pay taxes, which is definitely a problem with corporate society these days.

No sane business wants to spend $100 to save $15-30 in taxes.

Tell that to Amazon or any FANG company that doesn't pay taxes because their clever use of writeoffs and "losses"

They're spending $100 to invest in the growth of their company, which is quite different from "love spending money" or "begging for something to buy" to reduce their taxes.

In most cases you cannot use personal licence on a company hardware. JetBrains also have separation between individual licences and organization licences.

JetBrains allows users to use personal license for work, but declines company to buy cheap personal license. I think this is good pricing. I agree that make company to buy license is annoying.

I'm not talking about the distinction between free non-commercial and commercial licenses. I'm just talking in general that it's tough to get companies to purchase any software.