[omgitsabird]

This is interesting.

What are you looking for specifically? What does a neurodiversity program look like at a company? What, to you, makes a company neurodiversity-friendly?

[adhd_thraway]

If I'm to be 100% honest - I have no idea and thus I'm looking slightly to stand on the shoulders of the giants, who most likely know better than I do. Neurodiversity is... diverse. I could probably write a book about my experiences and they wouldn't match the next person with ADHD (at least not completely).

Describing the "perfect" organization for me that would probably be company that allowed me to switch between projects and technologies quickly while having "cleanup crew" in form of QA or an introvert who would be happy when not bothered.

The best employers/clients I ever had were the ones who had the silent "I sit and cut all the loose things" type of person, that allowed us to have perfect synergy, as I was frontman dealing with meetings, arguing on architecture doing the high-level designs and they were working on things that I missed (and there were plenty). I always - however - made sure they got recognition, both directly (assuring that if it wasn't for them I would progress at all) and in team environment.

Thus I think that if someone would be able to recognize traits that come with ADHD they would both help me feel better about stuff and could also juice more out of me (which I personally love, since I thrive in hard, legacy code with hundreds of engineering and business problems and IT is something I choose very consciously). This also comes with the fact, that someone has to recognize downtime and help me manage it, as ADHD is prone to obsessions and burnout, thus I quite often end up working 12h at 8h job while forgetting to go for lunch.

In summary - while I don't know it's either company that knows what they're doing and have a specialists for that, or company that would like to work with ADHD people.

[neurouniversity]

Have you tried consulting? I can recognise a lot of what you describe in myself, and as a fellow recently enlightened ADHD (though I dislike the term) person who has spent quite a few years working in this type of environment, I can totally see why it's a really good fit. Some of the biggest firms are starting to recognise this and are targeting their marketing towards folks like us: https://www.ey.com/en_uk/news/2021/07/ey-launches-first-neur...

It's not all roses of course. Happy to share my experience, if useful.