Most every job I've had I've always had admin rights to my own machine, however, I did a stint at the US Department of Agriculture as a SharePoint developer, and since it was a government job, they were incredibly strict about security, and I didn't have admin rights. It was so incredibly frustrating, I had to wait two weeks to just get NotePad++ on my machine! After about 6 months, they finally gave it to me because they were sick of me asking to install the stuff I needed all the time :)