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Corporate IT
Raised as a usability problem by 37 people on Hacker News over 19 years (2008–2026), in 38 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Corporate IT, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 38 complaints
- Non-technical users cannot complete business on corporate websites and applications2026-06-26
- Bundled apps run at startup with tray icons that cannot be disabled or removed2026-03-13
- Docs are sparse or outdated, so new hires spend up to two weeks finding access2025-09-22
- Spent 30 minutes unable to find option to create a support ticket2025-08-04
- Email unusable due to noise, with thousands of unread messages across many channels2024-07-15
- Chats can't be exported or kept as a record, and they are brittle2024-05-17
- Takes hours of red tape just to run a basic hello world2024-04-13
- Booking agents' clunky tool causes broken seat selection and lost loyalty points2024-04-07
- Work PC feels very slow to use despite high-end specs2024-01-16
- Out-of-sync corporate auth systems lock users out of their work computers2023-08-19
- Vague copy and stock images tell visitors nothing about the actual product2023-05-06
- Non-standard OS users must install root certs or the internet becomes unusable2023-02-06
- Employees must pay for flights themselves and wait for reimbursement, which is needlessly complicated2022-12-10
- Pages keep scrolling and reformatting, so links shift and users click the wrong thing2022-11-21
- Google's main page loads slowly and fails about two-thirds of the time2022-10-05
- Insider jargon and unexplained internal project references make discussions impossible for newcomers to follow2022-07-07
- Corporate software has horrible interfaces because decision-makers aren't the everyday users2022-05-04
- Apps take hours to open due to memory swapping from mandated security software2022-01-28
- Can't find the publication date on blog posts and articles2022-01-26
- Overly restrictive machines force developers into workarounds because they cannot install needed software2021-12-11
- Gets disconnected often, forcing repeated re-logins each day2021-09-20
- Hard to pick a compliant flight and navigate justification forms2021-05-04
- Enterprise corporate tools are slow, laggy and hard to use for employees2021-04-14
- Changing distribution list membership requires filing a ticket for every change, which people find cumbersome2021-01-12
- Many instructional videos outside YouTube lack a playback speed control, forcing viewers to watch at a slow pace2020-09-04
- Network throughput capped at 3Mbit, IT insisted problem was upstream2020-08-19
- Hard to organize and reorganize large wiki content; bulk moves and cleanup are difficult2020-08-10
- Hard to read due to layout: no justified text, odd headlines, poor margins2020-03-11
- Meetings start late because dial-ins fail or microphones are muted2020-02-11
- Password change fails about one time in three, forcing support tickets and lockouts2019-06-03
- Error after submit wipes filled-in form data; links and new tabs break2018-02-05
- Simple requests need tickets, phone calls and change control, so getting work done is nearly impossible2017-08-17
- Corporate OS installer fails repeatedly; too many EULAs and slow permission forms to click through2015-08-26
- Frequent re-logins, slow VPN reconnects, and hard-to-verify typed passphrases on screens2015-05-13
- Every file read and write is scanned, making incremental builds laggy and full builds impractically slow2015-04-16
- Work laptop lags so badly that every keystroke in Eclipse is delayed2011-07-19
- Users must search on Kayak and tweak criteria to find flights the booking system shows2010-10-11
- Passwords change every few days and can't be reset on the web, forcing helpdesk calls2008-12-29