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When you onboard to a new company, they will automatically give you access to whatever systems you need to do your job.

Related: When you're hired to be a computer programmer, the company will have a computer for you on your first day of work.

This happened to me twice. The first time at a low-rent startup where people were expected to bring their own machines. (Company folded months later amid an unrelated government investigation.) The second time was when the previous programmer did something unpleasant to the computer on his way out, and the company's procurement process for getting replacement gear required lots of approvals because dev machines are higher-spec and more expensive than an ordinary office computer.

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