Yes. I'm a programmer at a startup that's going very well. The founders have been around the block before so there's no chaos, no struggling with funding, they

Yes. I'm a programmer at a startup that's going very well. The founders have been around the block before so there's no chaos, no struggling with funding, they pay us well, and give us great benefits. There's a lot of care put into organizing project teams (projects usually last 3-6 months) and we get to have a lot of input about what we work on, so that no one person is stuck doing the same thing forever. They don't care when I get to work or how much vacation I take, just that I do the work I need to do.. I pretty get as much autonomy as possible. There's very little expectation to work overtime, except for the very rare crunch time for an important customer. The projects I'm working on aren't insane technical challenges, but I do basically feel like I'm solving a bunch of little puzzles for a living. There are a lot of nice, capable senior programmers to learn from, so I never feel like I'm stagnating or am in way too far over my head. We've put a lot of thought into our application architectures and the business side is A-OK with us taking time to refactor and tackle tech debt as it accrues. I can't really think of much I'd improve. Sure, the company doesn't burn money on a crazy nice office like Dropbox with top-tier chefs cooking us scallops and whatnot, but for the stuff that truly matters and makes me feel fulfilled, it's perfect.