I am a software developer at a big bank. The hoops we are forced to jump to just do our jobs are ridiculous.
We resorted to using buggy and laggy remote development environments through a slow VPN.
It’s a miserable life, but at least the pay is good.
What’s the hourly wage?
“Will I have root on my dev machine” is on my list of interview questions, now.
Probably is for me too. This is something I’ve taken for granted as I work for a small company and I am the IT admin…and development team lead, I wear lots of hats. Not the owner though, basically like a CTO+.
Asking questions like that can cause hiring managers like myself to have no choice but to offer you higher pay grades, because that question is a strong signal of experience.
Experience shows that you still force me to use WSL, because you want to develop your stupid app in the same setup as the Windows store version and i have to fix the not-so-much cross-platform monster of three people before me who never heard of technical debt.
Absolutely.
My environment sucks almost as much as the next one. It just pays better and we get to be angry at difficult real problems caused by the previous people, instead of stupid self-inflicted problems caused by our own shortsightedness.
Edit: I mean, there’s still some problems caused by our own shortsightedness, obviously.
And technically I didn’t say you would like my answer, just that I’ll pay more because you asked. Lol.
Because too many developers don’t understand cybersecurity.
As is obvious from some of these comments here.
Whats next, you want domain admin access to every computer/server you touch as well?
What they don’t understand is their own machine can get compromised, and in turn compromise their accesses and other infrastructure in a pivot attack.
Developers tend to have quite a lot of access, and some can even deploy to production. At my company, the dev workstations are even more locked down than the regular users’ computers for that reason, they can’t even leave the province.
I hate blanket generalization. You know when you get to that point that your company is over managed and understaffed, not creating a good work environment.
Nah, sudo is fine. I can create users without touching the domain stuff. 🙃
you want domain admin access to every computer/server you touch as well?
Heh. I’ve had it. It’s not all it’s cracked up to be. And I didn’t even get one of those humorous “all I got was this lousy T-shirt” shirts.
Ah, that time when my job required me to write an executable scanner, and all the AVs got jealous I was honing in on their turf.
AV running in kernel mode charges its CPU cycles to the process being monitored, instead of the AV doing the monitoring.
I got a whole bunch of “your program is slow” support tickets which were resolved by telling the client to follow the AV exclusion instructions.
Took me way to long to notice I was accidentally reading “charges” as “changes”. Now I finally got what you were saying.
You could, and I’m just spitballing here, start sending your compiled executables to the anti-virus provider and only continuing work once they’ve been added to the upstream exceptions. Bonus points for compiling hundreds and sending them all. Do that for a day or two and there is sure to be a number of communications many levels above you.
If executed perfectly and all goes well, you’ll get your exceptions access.
Worst case… uh. Maybe this isn’t such a good idea after all.
Corporate antivirus is so great that it restricts windows update while not connected to the main network by ethernet.
Some of us are there once a month.
Last windows update broke it, and now nobody can update.
It also bring 5 seconds of load time to any website
Trellix is just rebranded McAfee. Here’s instructions for How To Uninstall McAfee Antivirus.
RIP you glorious bastard.
I’d like to think he’s up in heaven getting shit on by a beautiful Brazilian lady.
If you haven’t seen it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfe4Fjf3sds
This is not Trellix ePO as you can make exclusions. No, this reeks of Defender.
I also suspect it hangs Firefox’s network stack while it does its initial scan after each boot. Chrome does not have this issue.
Same. It is after all their own time they are wasting, so whatever. I get paid either way.
