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Ask HN: Salary/equity aside, what would your ideal job offer consist of?

8 points by rococode 8y ago

jesterson 8y ago
Some cash would be nice to get as well :)
gesman 8y ago
Signing bonus, RSU's of publicly traded Co, relaxing WFH-friendly environment
seattle_spring 8y ago
Lots of paid vacation. And not the "unlimited" kind, I mean dedicated days that roll over and pay out when you leave.
cyrilbenson47 8y ago
Earning more than >= $100k/yr as a remote dev. I'm from the Philippines.
- tuananh 8y ago
  there're jobs like that? wow!
letorruella 8y ago
Working remotely as a dev.
askafriend 8y ago
Flexibility, autonomy, clarity in strategy, open communication, a genuine effort to do the right thing and a clear drive to win as a business from which all the other points flow.
badpun 8y ago
- Working 4 days a week. - 6 weeks of (paid) vacation - Private office, with a door - Ability to partially work from home - No on-call These are probably less about the offer and more about working environment: - Freedom to choose my tools (incl. laptop, development OS) - No Agile - No team, or very small team with smart colleagues To summarize, the above are about satisfying two needs: for authonomy, and to not be worked to the bone.
malux85 8y ago
The freedom to work on whatever I wanted (it would be computational chemistry for the next 5 years) Enough salary to not worry about money. All of my work and datasets are open source so everyone can benefit. The ability to mentor juniors as I enjoy teaching. The ability to work my own hours - because this is more productive (I frequently do 4-5 hours work, take a 2 hour nap, then do another 4-5 hours) every day
erik_seaberg 8y ago
In order from most realistic to pipe dream: Meetings don't happen without agendas and needing input from everyone. Hard problems where half-baked solutions genuinely can't work for the business (this is why I gravitated to ads and payments). If I conduct interviews, attract a good portion of strong candidates I'll be excited to work with, and filter out the ones who can't code at all. Don't put me on call for stuff I didn't write with no runbook (corollary: get runbooks written before the whole team moves on). Windows of undisturbed time for deep work. Support DSL design; don't limit me to blub languages and libraries that the median candidate can handle. Let me ramp up on formal methods and start using them.
mfalcon 8y ago
- working 5 days a week, 4 to 6hs per day on my own schedule (most of the time) - 8 weeks of paid vacation - interesting and high value work - private office when I need/want to go - remote whenever I don't need/want to go to the office - 5x the salary needed to mantain a frugal style of living

8 points by rococode 8y ago

jesterson 8y ago

Some cash would be nice to get as well :)

gesman 8y ago

Signing bonus, RSU's of publicly traded Co, relaxing WFH-friendly environment

seattle_spring 8y ago

Lots of paid vacation. And not the "unlimited" kind, I mean dedicated days that roll over and pay out when you leave.

cyrilbenson47 8y ago

Earning more than >= $100k/yr as a remote dev. I'm from the Philippines.

tuananh 8y ago
there're jobs like that? wow!

letorruella 8y ago

Working remotely as a dev.

askafriend 8y ago

Flexibility, autonomy, clarity in strategy, open communication, a genuine effort to do the right thing and a clear drive to win as a business from which all the other points flow.

badpun 8y ago

- Working 4 days a week. - 6 weeks of (paid) vacation - Private office, with a door - Ability to partially work from home - No on-call These are probably less about the offer and more about working environment: - Freedom to choose my tools (incl. laptop, development OS) - No Agile - No team, or very small team with smart colleagues To summarize, the above are about satisfying two needs: for authonomy, and to not be worked to the bone.

malux85 8y ago

The freedom to work on whatever I wanted (it would be computational chemistry for the next 5 years) Enough salary to not worry about money. All of my work and datasets are open source so everyone can benefit. The ability to mentor juniors as I enjoy teaching. The ability to work my own hours - because this is more productive (I frequently do 4-5 hours work, take a 2 hour nap, then do another 4-5 hours) every day

erik_seaberg 8y ago

In order from most realistic to pipe dream: Meetings don't happen without agendas and needing input from everyone. Hard problems where half-baked solutions genuinely can't work for the business (this is why I gravitated to ads and payments). If I conduct interviews, attract a good portion of strong candidates I'll be excited to work with, and filter out the ones who can't code at all. Don't put me on call for stuff I didn't write with no runbook (corollary: get runbooks written before the whole team moves on). Windows of undisturbed time for deep work. Support DSL design; don't limit me to blub languages and libraries that the median candidate can handle. Let me ramp up on formal methods and start using them.

mfalcon 8y ago

- working 5 days a week, 4 to 6hs per day on my own schedule (most of the time) - 8 weeks of paid vacation - interesting and high value work - private office when I need/want to go - remote whenever I don't need/want to go to the office - 5x the salary needed to mantain a frugal style of living