Ask HN: Who's not sucky to work for?

Post by bogomipz » Wed, Nov 03, 2021, 11:24 PM UTC

a-saleh wrote: post #102

Red Hat. Worked there as an intern during college, continued for few more years and returned there after a brief stint at a startup. Work/life balance is great, most code public has so many advantages and colleagues are friendly and decent humans. Some teams might be worse than what I experienced, but even if I was growing mildly frustrated (i.e. pressure from product people to push product out of hte gate before it…

Post by elzbardico » Wed, Nov 03, 2021, 11:25 PM UTC

toyg wrote: post #144

jokethrowaway wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If we want to generalise: Eastern Europe is hit or miss. I had some good experiences and plenty of terrible ones (more so recently). I think that eastern Europe used to be good, but there are plenty of actors milking the scene and reputation of eastern Europe. I know 2 smart fellas making bank selling remote junior developers from Hungary and Poland to London clueless companies for slightly cheaper than senior London…

> maybe they should start learning Chinese. Despite all the cool Matrix aesthetic, I dread to think of a programming language in Chinese.

Post by AYBABTME » Wed, Nov 03, 2021, 11:30 PM UTC

dsr_ wrote: post #24

I work for a small financial SaaS in Boston. 30-50 people. Nobody offshore. I've worked here for 18 years and 11 months and a couple of days. Yes, we're hiring. The best thing about the company are the people who are already here. The basic hiring criteria are "clever, competent and kind". That doesn't mean we never have disagreements, but they tend to be technical disagreements about the best approach to reach the s…

Post by sneak » Wed, Nov 03, 2021, 11:34 PM UTC

AYBABTME wrote: post #165

dsr_ wrote: post #24

I work for a small financial SaaS in Boston. 30-50 people. Nobody offshore. I've worked here for 18 years and 11 months and a couple of days. Yes, we're hiring. The best thing about the company are the people who are already here. The basic hiring criteria are "clever, competent and kind". That doesn't mean we never have disagreements, but they tend to be technical disagreements about the best approach to reach the s…

What does "Nobody offshore" means here?

Post by zamadatix » Wed, Nov 03, 2021, 11:34 PM UTC

itake wrote: post #153

ubermonkey wrote: post #62

I've never worked for a big famous tech firm, but I will absolutely tell you how I've managed to avoid hating work for 30 years: Find a relatively small firm, still owner-run and controlled. Avoid public firms. A corporation cannot show loyalty, but a HUMAN can. A manager has no real control -- their manager can reverse them. When you work for the owner, you can trust things a bit more IF you're working for a trustwo…

counter point: after working for small owner-run companies where the owner took everything personally, I will forever only work in big tech. The owner ran the show and was emotional. Every time a competitor launched something new, they would change course and race to copy them. Ended up delivering nothing and eventually laid off after 1.5 years. At a big company, everyone is spending someone else's money and the peop…