I love my job. Sure, there are frustrations, miscommunications, bugs, deadlines, annoying customers, etc. but: 1. I get to play with APL[1] every day which mak

I love my job. Sure, there are frustrations, miscommunications, bugs, deadlines, annoying customers, etc. but: 1. I get to play with APL[1] every day which makes work fun[2] in itself. 2. The company I work for very much feels like a family. Most of us are friends as well as colleagues, and end up seeing each other outside of work. We have a strict no overtime-pay policy to avoid employees overworking themselves, and a flat management structure with a large degree of freedom to organise oneself and choose what exactly to work on. Everyone is expected to speak up about any issue they encounter, be it internal, in the product, or in outside communications. After interviews by managers, potential new hires have to present and answer questions about some project of theirs to the entire company. Then we send them out, and anyone can express any concerns (or positivity!) We don't adhere to any strict way of working; just a beginning-of-week standup where we say what we're expecting to work on this week and if we need anything from anyone else, and an end-of-week report on what we got done. And no, we're not a startup, we've been in business for over 45 years, and have customers that are making hundreds of millions of dollars a year. [1] https://apl.wiki https://apl.wiki [2] https://chat.stackexchange.com/search?q=apl+fun&room=240 https://chat.stackexchange.com/search?q=apl+fun&room=240