Comment by medi8r

Ouch I don't want to work there! It seems extreme. A decent place to work let's you do your thing. There will be guardrails. But my current job my boss has never told me not to do something. Getting the time to do it is another story and there are solutions. Sometimes picking the battle and lettung it go. Sometimes driving a decision and agreement. But if you do that people like it. And I work somewhere pretty well mocked on HN and Reddit etc. But they are good.

Other places I worked it is usually another engineer throwing a spanner in the works. Smaller companies have a lot of pets in the code and architecture. But if you avoid the pets you can change things.