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Ask HN: What companies have a good work life balance?

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Re: Ask HN: What companies have a good work life balance?

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Controversial stance, but... almost any big company, as long as you don't care too much about promotions or the social hierarchy of your coworkers. Get a $150k job as a senior software engineer, show up to meetings, do good-enough work and be polite and friendly to your coworkers and you'll basically be fine. At performance review time you'll get the low-performer raise of 3% instead of the high-performer raise of 4%…

It also depends on your education, IQ and productivity. If your job is slightly out of your league, you will struggle to have a work life balance.

Re: Ask HN: What companies have a good work life balance?

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+1 for Atlassian. One of my close mates is a US FTE for 10 years and he's always trying to recruit me, specifically on the merits of work-life balance. Surely varies from team to team but their Team Anywhere (fully remote, all positions) is very appealing.

Atlassian's hiring is strange, at least in my country (India) where it's either competitive or they just don't seem to hire unless you have a referral. I think I applied via a referral but still didn't get through.
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