Enterprise IT Criticism

The cluster focuses on complaints about corporate and enterprise IT departments being outdated, restrictive, incompetent, or obstructive to productivity, often blaming management setups or contrasting with shadow IT practices.

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Sample Comments

maxxxxx Dec 14, 2016 View on HN

Seems that's a self-inflicted problem by corporate IT.

sekh60 Oct 22, 2022 View on HN

Not really IT's fault. Mainly management always wanting a neck to choke.

drivingmenuts Sep 2, 2014 View on HN

No, that's a problem with your IT department being stuck about a decade behind.

oauea Jun 19, 2020 View on HN

Sounds like a problem for their IT.

ben_w Sep 20, 2020 View on HN

Sounds like the issue is the big enterprise style IT departments rather than the hardware or the OS.

btcbanking Jun 11, 2019 View on HN

Because noone in IT is competent?

x3n0ph3n3 Sep 3, 2024 View on HN

I can't imagine IT departments are going to put up with this, either.

sceadu Apr 30, 2025 View on HN

Seems like you're unfamiliar with enterprise IT

joseph_cooney Sep 3, 2013 View on HN

Try telling that to enterprise IT.

cm2187 Aug 23, 2017 View on HN

Be careful, there is the idea that the IT guy has of what the other employees "just need" and what they actually do. Unless you are talking about a really low level employee who is only authorised to use company hardware to press certain buttons on certain forms, it's likely that most employees deal with much more complicated workflows than their IT department realises.