@ripienaar Yes, everybody was on irc. We all chatted regularly. The shift happened more than a year after we got bought out.

Similarly everybody was on our github enterprise. I could tag _anybody_ in the company, and we all had access to repos. It wasn't uncommon for somebody from a different department to send in a PR to fix something that was bothering them. I patched some text on our web app while I worked in ops (weird gendering of things that didnt need it).