Ask HN: What is your dream company?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8002836

by apranam2 • 12 years ago

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If you could work anywhere you wanted, where would it be and why?

enilsen16• 12 years ago

Twitch. Its an amazing platform with a lot of potential. If only they focused on discoverability issues...

kull• 12 years ago

Isn't google the correct answer?

hashtag• 12 years ago

If I had to choose from existing companies and ones that I know of that exist, probably Google. Mainly because there are insanely smart people there I feel I could learn from. The added perks and good pay is also nice.

codeonfire3• 12 years ago

My own company. You all know the reasons if you work as a developer at any sort of company, so I won't go into it. I need to not work under other people. "Other people" seems to not like this idea.

lifeisstillgood2• 12 years ago

You always work under other people - even when you own the company, you work under your clients. Which means that if you are employeed in a cubicle, you can choose the mindset of an independant company - make your estimates as if money rested on them, meet your commitments as if the next contract depended on it, and be a peer not a servant.

Just do it. Then when you have the soft skills to run your own business, run your own business

codeonfire3• 12 years ago

I don't intend to work on products for individual clients.

Soft skills? The only soft skill a developer needs to know is to not let on that he/she is a developer. That changes the business dynamic. A developer is someone who has something that a client wants. That makes the client and developer adversaries in a way. They have to bargain to each get what they want. An executive of a firm is someone who can get the client what the client wants. That makes them both partners in trying to find a developer to get the thing they now both want. Obviously the developer needs to be seen as a partner and not an adversary. All we then have to do is lie about who will be doing the actual work and maybe hire a few people to make it seem authentic. Developers can never be peers with clients unless they stop being developers or lie about it. It's just not a matter of soft skills.

bluerail• 12 years ago

Facebook.. Yeah..

lily2014• 12 years ago

Of course, Google is the priority.

stripe• 12 years ago

I have no idea if such company exists:

- No politics. If the whole team agrees that something benefits their work then we will try it out. I do not have any respect for managers sabotaging team decisions because of gut feelings. Hard facts count. I can help getting those, just ask.

- Working fully remotely from Europe.

- No BS. No, your video serving backend written in Ruby which does 3k requests/min isn't something to brag about. No, you do not need to brag about your Sales guy who brought in 200$ more revenue this month. Let me fix this bug for you in production and save a few servers of your AWS bill.

- I don't care if it's Ruby/Java/Scala/Go/Erlang/Self Invented Foo

- No Perl.

- No quizzes during interviews.

- Even though I am only a software engineer everyone around me says that I get stuff done. Ownership does not stop at QA/OPS/PROD/Customer Support. I love finished products, not pushing lines of code to git. Empower me.

- Smart colleagues

Looking at these few criterias I should start paying people to find such companies.

yasmina• 12 years ago

Google.

Not to mention the free lunch at their office café, a wide variety of indoor gaming options and a lounge seating instead of traditional desk and chair as Google's workspace...

I also love the idea, that they have a weekly Thank God it’s Friday (TGIF) meeting where any employees can communicate freely and openly. They also have an annual satisfaction survey and I believe that transparency are a huge part of their success.

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