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

Post by dsr_ » Thu, Nov 04, 2021, 12:57 AM UTC

mraza007 wrote: post #205

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…

Just curious if you don’t mind can you share the name of the company you work for

Post by i_am_proteus » Thu, Nov 04, 2021, 1:05 AM UTC

yibg wrote: post #193

jedberg wrote: post #53

I loved every minute of my time working at Netflix. Great, talented coworkers who I could constantly learn from, management chain from bottom to top of former engineers, so they understood when you would say, "I worked on this for a week but have no results because it didn't work". Plenty of resources to do what you needed to do, and lots of autonomy to do what you thought was right. Very little process and upper man…

I’ll second this. Netflix was one of my favorite places to work as well for mostly the same reasons. Having said that I do hear they are getting bigger and things have changed somewhat recently. So YMMV. Edit: it’s also nice to not have ethical concerns with your choice of employer.

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Nov 04, 2021, 1:09 AM UTC

xyzelement wrote: post #196

almeria wrote: post #138

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The flip side of this sentiment is expressed quite eloquently in a sibling comment. In fact, we might even say the commenter is "crushing it": One challenge is that even in sucky workplaces, there always seem to be champions that will tell you how great it is. If I hear people say they are (or were) miserable at a certain job - I tend to take their word when they say there's a reason for it. Your take seems to be...…

>> If I hear people say they are (or were) miserable at a certain job - I tend to take their word when they say there's a reason for it Like I said, there's an objective and a subjective here. I mainly found that people who are miserable at a job were miserable at every other job too. Doesn't totally mean it's "them" but it's kinda like "the only common in all your failed relationships is you." Then there's the total…

Post by aoeusnth1 » Thu, Nov 04, 2021, 1:17 AM UTC

Post by loxias » Thu, Nov 04, 2021, 1:22 AM UTC

jedberg wrote: post #53

I loved every minute of my time working at Netflix. Great, talented coworkers who I could constantly learn from, management chain from bottom to top of former engineers, so they understood when you would say, "I worked on this for a week but have no results because it didn't work". Plenty of resources to do what you needed to do, and lots of autonomy to do what you thought was right. Very little process and upper man…