Corporate culture used to be far weirder: IBM Songbooks (twitter.com) 3 points by tomilola39 3y ago ↗ HN
[–] ggm 3y 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 3y ago ↗ How many 55 year olds work at FAANGs? [–] ggm 3y ago ↗ Brian Reid isn't one of them, we know that from a lawsuit with Google (he was 52 at the time)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Reid_(computer_scientist...OTOH Vint Cerf, Rob Pike & Ken Thompson are all doing fine there. So, YMMV
[–] hindsightbias 3y ago ↗ How many 55 year olds work at FAANGs? [–] ggm 3y ago ↗ Brian Reid isn't one of them, we know that from a lawsuit with Google (he was 52 at the time)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Reid_(computer_scientist...OTOH Vint Cerf, Rob Pike & Ken Thompson are all doing fine there. So, YMMV
[–] ggm 3y ago ↗ Brian Reid isn't one of them, we know that from a lawsuit with Google (he was 52 at the time)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Reid_(computer_scientist...OTOH Vint Cerf, Rob Pike & Ken Thompson are all doing fine there. So, YMMV
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[ 5.2 ms ] story [ 22.3 ms ] threadThen permitted Bermuda shorts, briefly.
Beards came later.
Now, IBM sacks anyone over the age of 55 (only half joking)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Reid_(computer_scientist...
OTOH Vint Cerf, Rob Pike & Ken Thompson are all doing fine there. So, YMMV