Work Environment

[henry_flower]

'When I joined [Bell Labs], I was basically told to "do something interesting," given suitable computer resources, encouraged to talk to interesting and competent people, and given a year before having to formally present my work for evaluation.

There was a cultural bias against "grand projects" that required more than a couple of people, against "grand plans" like untested paper designs for others to implement, and against a class distinction between designers and implementers. If you liked such things, Bell Labs and others have many places where you could indulge such preferences.

However, in the Computing Science Research Center it was almost a requirement that you - if you were not into theory - personally implemented something embodying your ideas and found users that could benefit from what you built. The environment was very supportive for such work and the Labs provided a large pool of people with ideas and problems to challenge and test anything built.'

(From The Design & Evolution of C++ by Bjarne Stroustrup.)

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