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Which company would you prefer to join?
- Mashimo 1y agoHard to say when I don't know the details. I prefer Work Life Balance and the people, but how would I know if MongoDB .. or whoever, is a fit?
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- poisonborz 1y agoWould need an option "to not join the other" when asking why.
- probably_wrong 1y agoI'd also like an option for "I'd rather be unemployed".
- globular-toast 1y agoYep. Every time a "trading" company came up like Jane Street my only option was to select the other.
- companymatches 1y agoyeah added this option in the reasons, and also provide way for user to express dislike for either company
- moribvndvs 1y agoThis is just a who’s-who of asshole companies.
- noelwelsh 1y agoWeird that the reasons don't include anything about the actual work. The work I envisage doing is a much more important reason than, say, prestige to me.
- furk 1y agoIt also mentions “remote” as a reason as if I know which companies allow remote work by heart.
- jakewins 1y agoPrimary reason for my choices was I didn’t want the other company. Do I want to work for Instacart? Not really. Do I prefer working for Instacart over Tesla? Well, I’d rather go back to hand digging trenches in the rain than work for Tesla, so yeah I prefer Instacart.
- tdeck 1y agoEthics is also a big one for me but seems to be missing.
- scarface_74 1y agoI mean for either company you are going to be helping a company to chase profits. There is nothing wrong with that. But let’s not pretend there is a deeper meaning to work than to exchange labor for money. None of these companies will see you as any more than a number. The only deciding factor would be remote work and money.
- noelwelsh 1y agoThis is the weird Homo economicus take that pops up quite often on HN. It shouldn't be surprising that some people want more than just money from the place where they spend half or more of their waking life. You can just check the comments here to see some of the reasons that people work, beyond money.
- WhyIsItAlwaysHN 1y agoYou might want to add a simple description of each company. I don't know half of them and in this dopamine shot optimized format, I don't really have the patience to research every one of them in a different tab.
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- companymatches 1y agoyeah that is a good idea, i need to think a bit on UX part, and would need to pull in all the company info, which should not be hard
- INTPenis 1y agoThe list is actually missing the only two companies I ever dreamed of joining. Red Hat and Gitlab. Never made it, but I was close with RedHat.
- nottorp 1y agoYou dodged a bullet since it's IBM now :)
- maxehmookau 1y ago"Tesla or TikTok" ....yeesh
- nottorp 1y ago"Which company would you prefer to join if you had extensive info about all those companies" would be a more appropriate title. I clicked hoping it's some sort of quiz about what i prefer to work on and how work is done, that will eventually recommend me a few companies.
- simoncion 1y agoSo... it's Hot or Not, but with a two-point scale and for companies, rather than people?
- TrackerFF 1y agoShould maybe add "brand recognition" or something like that. Some of these companies, I only know by name. And if I'm stuck between two unknown companies, I'll go with the one that I've seen the most. Not really prestige, but because their branding / exposure / whatever.
- neilv 1y agoClicking on the top companies on the leaderboard, top reason given for most wins is Prestige (over Compensation, Mission, Career Growth, etc.). I wonder how accurate that self-reporting is. How many of the people saying Prestige are thinking career growth? What does prestige get you that's more important than career growth? (Consolation prize for parents who wanted you to become a doctor?)
- strken 1y agoI got LinkedIn and Ramp. I've never heard of Ramp in my life. I bet all the actual results for Ramp are buried under a mountain of people who clicked companies with a more widespread brand and then clicked prestige because it's the closest thing to "I have no idea who the other option is".
- neilv 1y agoGreat theory.
- omegabravo 1y agoI don't know what two companies pay, so I clicked two based on reputation and work. If I knew one paid more, I would have absolutely chosen that.
- Surac 1y agoyou forget one option: non of them. all are soulless and burn people to make money with products not needed
- neilv 1y agoAMD only wins 86% over McDonalds.
- bee_rider 1y agoI could see it. I’d much rather work for AMD (they are knocking it out of the park these days), but I bet the standards are really low at McDonalds.
- Philpax 1y agoWow. The selection of companies is dire. I can't say I'd want to work for any of the companies I saw within the first ten rounds.
- absoluteunit1 1y agoMy thoughts exactly haha
- companymatches 1y agoi just provided way for user to express dislike for either company and skip the pair
- amai 1y agoThe last 20 according to the leaderboard now: 110. Tesla 111. Roku 112. Electronic Arts 113. Brex 114. xAI 115. Docusign 116. Rubrik 117. Oracle 118. SoFi 119. Epic Games 120. Expendify 121. Cisco 122. Albertsons 123. Circle 124. Peloton 125. WeWork 126. Concur 127. Expedia 128. Walmart 129. Coupang 130. HBO
- bibalo 1y agowhy is Github is top 5
- companymatches 1y agoHey HN, owner of the companymatches.com here We weren’t quite expecting this much love… We just exceeded our free egress limit today (and this post contributes to a big portion for sure) If things start acting weird, that’s why. Thanks for the interest — and the brutally honest feedback. Feel free to keep voting on the site. And let us know what you'd like to see next.