In my over 10 years as commercial programmer I never had bad boss or torturous team members (apart from one angry inept guy who asked way too many basic questions when he was expected to pull his own weight and didn&#x27;t last long).<p>That might be atypical because I spent more than half of my time freelancing which gives you great freedom in steering clear of harmful people and confidence to leave any employment when it stops being benign.