Maybe this is a Danish thing, but around here the absolute best benefits are always found in “boring” places like banking, healthcare, energy sector, public sec

Maybe this is a Danish thing, but around here the absolute best benefits are always found in “boring” places like banking, healthcare, energy sector, public sector and similar enterprise. Sure it’s not foosball and beer, but stuff like good pensions, being able to get paid leave for more than the nationally granted first day of child sickness, paid launch (you effectively work 2,5 hours less a week), extra paid vacation options beyond the 6 weeks and stuff like that. Finance often has decent healthcare insurance options as well (this is basically skipping the queue for non-cancer type illnesses). Startups tend to be really fun environments to work in when you are young. With things like foos and beer, but once you get older, the ability to take two or three days off or semi-off when your children are sick is just sooo much more valuable. Personally I’ve worked in both environments and I haven’t found the tech to be particularly boring in “boring” enterprise. I work in the green energy sector right now, and I’ve been able to work with things like Rust in the past year. Some of our stuff COBOL levels of “boring”, but anything new we build is pretty much cutting edge tech. You do not get the opportunity to build things like React so often, however, so if that’s your jam you should stick with tech companies.