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I find these rankings to be really arbitrary. They should really have them split into categories like they have them for types of schools people like to go to (
by noname123 11y ago
I find these rankings to be really arbitrary. They should really have them split into categories like they have them for types of schools people like to go to (engineering schools, big city schools, hipster schools, ivies, facing-saving schools for ivy rejects etc.),
Perfect Places for A Personality People also Like Cults (Amazon, Bridgewater Associates)
Places for people who like to Chillax and Still Get Paid (Lucrative BigCo with flex-time, summer hours, no morning standups, WFH)
Places for parents (BigCo with generous maternal leaves, daycare or benefits for families)
Places for brogrammers (Genius formerly known as RapGenius)
Places for 'Silicon Valley' Show Lovers (Company mission statement that includes the phrase "change the world," Nerf Guns part of office deco, uncompromising nature to adopt the latest cool tech like Node.js)
Places for introverts (Places with offices for employees, not open office plans, WFH options; in fields that are less sales-oriented and more academic, niche research companies)
Curious if anyone else has any ideas on the 'ecology' of tech companies and what 'animals' are best fit for which one!
- oh_sigh 11y agoFrom what I could tell, various branches of google fit all the "places" you listed in your post.
- spydertennis 11y agothis could disrupt the recruiting industry. its a matchmaking service and it matches your personality to the company. someone make this please.
- hkmurakami 11y agoI know that HN User kokev wanted to do this (since he himself had a particular set of preferences for employer characteristics) but idk what became of it.
- superuser2 11y ago... this is the recruiting industry, is it not? Are they not taking into account the kinds of cultures people want to work in?
- bobwaycott 11y agoRecruiters care that much? Haven't seen it.
- tootie 11y agoI'd like to hear more about Lucrative BigCo. Are they hiring?
- spyspy 11y agoWe here at Lucrative BigCo are always looking for paradigm changing talent to accelerate our dynamic synergy efforts. Please submit your resume to our jobs portal. This will require manually typing all of the info on your resume by hand into individual fields. Resume itself may only by in .txt format. We look forward to not responding for 6 to 12 months!
- Spooky23 11y agoDon't forget the portal has no back button, and a 30 second page timeout!
- prawn 11y agoAnd then they ask you to apply for a different, "more suitable" position and you have to re-submit your same CV through the process from scratch.
- bogomipz 11y agoThis a funny and a sad reality - come join our innovative company and solve interesting problems yet please submit your cv via jobvite/taleo or some other completely horrid job tracking system. Seems like that would be a place one could "disrupt."
- LargeCompanies 11y agoUggh was just going through this process a few hours ago .. dealing with those horrible enter your cover letter and resume systems for X big company. I even just encountered this when applying for a job thru StackOverflow. Overall those systems frustrate me to the point of finding the hiring managers name and their email address (just google for example @xcompany.com to see how their work email address is formatted) and sending them a personal message with my resume attached. This works at times, while other times it doesnt. But, either way I dont have to deal with those horrible CV/resume data entry systems. Also, since not many are using this hack Im sure the recruiting manager saw my resume vs. it going into a black hole.
- __float 11y agoI'm curious if you'd mind giving a list of those universities, too :P Particularly that last one piqued my interest!
- noname123 11y agoSure, np. But don't want to say them out aloud because it's not nice to stereotype in public. Instead look up the list of the most expensive undergraduate tuition in US, filter for schools that has the (largest price tag * (1 - percentage of demonstrated financial aid met)) / academic rigor ratio.
- hkmurakami 11y agoOh interesting. That's a totally different and much better approach that what I proposed in sibling post!
- hkmurakami 11y agoJust look at the top 20 colleges in US News and World Reports and remove all the ivies (and the top engineering schools if you're an engineering student).
- nvader 11y agoCould you explain what you mean by "summer hours"? The term is not familiar to me, and Googling was unfruitful.
- griffinmb 11y agoIn my experience, "summer hours" mean half-day Fridays over the summer. I'd never heard the term until I moved to NYC. To elaborate: Apparently the idea is that people could use it as travel time for weekend trips. Drive up to the Hamptons on Friday after lunch, have a full Saturday/Sunday to relax at the beach. Though I use it primarily for afternoon naps.
- noname123 11y agoSummer hours could also mean that the expectation that employees have the option of taking the entire Friday off during the summer, provided that you schedule into your work Mon-Thurs. to make for the lost "eight hours unit" across those four days of work (e.g., WFH, come in an hour earlier).
- hkmurakami 11y ago37 signals has a 4 day work week during the summer months.
- LandoCalrissian 11y agoSummer hour to me always meant it wasn't uncouth to leave an hour early during the week or take a full day or half day on Friday. Really it's just more relaxed hours.
- nvader 11y agoCould you explain what you mean by "summer hours"? The term is not familiar to me, and Googling was unfruitful.
- jdc 11y agoI'd love to see an artists rendering of this idea as a map similar to xkcd's map of online communities.
- kaybe 11y agoThat should also have overlaps for people who want several categories.(and will be increasingly ridiculous with higher number of categories..)
- athenot 11y agoThis article looks like the functional equivalent of writers at a travel magazine perusing Yelp for highest-rated restaurants, then writing a full article based on those rating but never actually dining at those establishments.
- greggarious 11y ago>"Places for people who like to Chillax and Still Get Paid (Lucrative BigCo with flex-time, summer hours, no morning standups, WFH)" Does these still exist?
- dagw 11y agoSounds like every company I've ever worked at in in Sweden.
- qihqi 11y agoWelcome to Oracle.
- mrcrassic 11y agoSounds like Morgan Stanley
- plinkplonk 11y agoIntuit.
- smackfu 11y agoYes but they aren't hiring.
- amyjess 11y agoBanks. I was talking to a friend of mine yesterday who went into detail about the exceedingly generous PTO packages offered by her employers when she worked in the banking industry. I was very impressed.
- sean2 11y agoI work at at a big co: I'm given about 2 months off per year, flexible hours and a work from home option. Of course, I'm selling this year's PTO back to the company because I was under pressure not to use it, and since every week is crunch time, required working hours are 8:30-6 Mon-Sat in the office. Point being, offerings are meaningless unless corporate culture allows you to use them.
- rjayatilleka 11y agoWait, hey, that last category of companies sounded really nice. Especially the closed offices. Can you list of some companies like that, so I know where to look?