I always look at it from these core 3 attributes: - Work (interesting, career progression, etc). - People (Good coworkers, aligned values, top-down vs bottom-

I always look at it from these core 3 attributes: - Work (interesting, career progression, etc). - People (Good coworkers, aligned values, top-down vs bottom-up, etc). - Compensation/Benefits (Many things to look at but I favor base and liquid components like RSUs). At different times I've optimized for different things. I believe is pretty common to optimize for work (learning/interesting) early in our careers and then start optimizing for compensation/benefits (I include company stability here as a benefit) as we grow older and have life responsibilities. People is something that I did not realize had such a big effect in my career and even compensation until much later in my career. If I work for an organization with people I enjoy working, values most of the things I value and I'm good at, I maximize the odds of being successful. Changing the culture of an organization is very hard, even more so when you're a leaf in the org tree.