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Corporate culture used to be far weirder: IBM Songbooks (opens in new tab)

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3 pointstomilola393y ago3 comments

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ggm3y 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)

hindsightbias3y ago

How many 55 year olds work at FAANGs?

ggm3y 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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