Corporate culture used to be far weirder: IBM Songbooks

3 points by tomilola39 3 years ago | 3 comments

ggm 3 years ago |

IBM banned beards and shorts.

Then permitted Bermuda shorts, briefly.

Beards came later.

Now, IBM sacks anyone over the age of 55 (only half joking)

hindsightbias 3 years ago | |

How many 55 year olds work at FAANGs?

ggm 3 years ago | | |

Brian Reid isn't one of them, we know that from a lawsuit with Google (he was 52 at the time)

OTOH Vint Cerf, Rob Pike & Ken Thompson are all doing fine there. So, YMMV