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shepherdjerred | karma 4030 | avg karma 2.34 · 2023-09-05 19:29:57

Do any companies today still have this culture?

jedberg | karma 72921 | avg karma 5.98 · 2023-09-05 19:36:24

OpenAI seems like it from the outside.

dekhn | karma 28741 | avg karma 2.63 · 2023-09-05 19:41:37

R&D in pharma/biotech can be like this. But there are fewer and fewer free-wheeling R&D groups in industry these days, probably because people saw Xerox PARC and thought it was a waste of money (a single invention at PARC paid for all of PARC).

ghaff | karma 44589 | avg karma 1.65 · 2023-09-05 20:34:30

>But there are fewer and fewer free-wheeling R&D groups in industry these days

This was true going back to the 80s. If anything there's been something of an uptick in companies with money to burn.

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VirusNewbie | karma 1494 | avg karma 1.36 · 2023-09-08 11:33:17

I recently joined and was shocked how much freedom they give senior engineers. It's really different than most big companies.