My previous employer was bought by a huge company. I liked it in the small company, because I had freedom to do it what was needed without much questions, and I was trusted to make the relevant decisions.

When we came under the big corpo, we got an email of all the software we used/needed, so that it could be added to the whitelist that big corpo worked with. Anything not in the whitelist simply couldn’t run.

I gave them the list, but spoke to my on-shore It guy that out in the field we often needed to install something that we didn’t need before on short notice, and waiting for a ticket to be resolved for an administrative matter had the potential to stop production.

They found it easier just to make an exception for my work PC. I just had the promise not to VPN in to the office while running “weird” stuff, otherwise the higher ups would get upset.

That’s fine. I had my own VPN for only the stuff I needed anyway.