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I knew of someone who worked there (maybe the old site) and had to resign after a couple of months as it was killing him. He had trouble getting there, management were arseholes and their IT security policy made it impossible to do his job. It was a number of years ago though.
When applying for a job away from home, I always ask about the car park facilities - especially if its out of town. Have turned jobs down because of it, also if they don't allow late monday / early friday getaways.
'their IT security policy made it impossible to do his job',
I guess you mean your mate wasn't used to working within the
contraints of the FDA and SOX
I don't know the details, I wasn't there. But this was well before Sarbanes-Oxley. I remember him moaning that he couldn't get C++ installed on his PC for some stupid reason to do with his machine being connected to the nextwork or something.
I did a stint for GSK in lovely Slough. Very very beauracratic due to US Food and Drug Agency requirements that had been allowed to get out of control. In theory they produce a perfect system but in reality lead to the exact opposite. It was one of those jobs where it was a few weeks before I could log in and basically progressed from there, did about a weeks worth of coding spread over 6 months. I did have parking though, and free butties, all in all not a bad contract.
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