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Companies that always appear on "best places to work" lists include: http://www.gore.com/ http://www.gore.com/ - Gore Industries, a truly astonishing workplace
by PaulRobinson 13y ago
Companies that always appear on "best places to work" lists include:
http://www.gore.com/ http://www.gore.com/ - Gore Industries, a truly astonishing workplace in almost every write-up I've ever read.
http://www.semco.com.br/en/ http://www.semco.com.br/en/ - The book "Maverick" by CEO Ricardo Semler shows how he set the culture. It's grown a lot since then, but still an amazing firm
http://www.sas.com/ http://www.sas.com/ - employees love it
http://www.netapp.com/ http://www.netapp.com/ - ditto, and the hardware is everywhere interesting.
http://www.qualcomm.com/ http://www.qualcomm.com/ - Qualcomm is best known to sys admins of a certain age for producing qpopper and for some of their staff being killed in Iraq. The company is apparently great to work for
http://www.dreamworksanimation.com/ http://www.dreamworksanimation.com/ - more code than you might think
http://www.amazon.com/ http://www.amazon.com/ - I know a guy who works in operations who loves it. For developers it has downside (you own your code in deployment), but he really rates it highly. YMMV.
http://www.salesforce.com/ http://www.salesforce.com/ - Rated highly by staff
https://www2.wwt.com/ https://www2.wwt.com/ - I'd never heard of them, but they appear on about half a dozen lists
http://www.rackspace.com/ http://www.rackspace.com/ - Biggest cloud provider outside Amazon, I think
http://www.autodesk.com/ http://www.autodesk.com/ - Personally I'd rather eat my own head than work there, but well regarded by employees
http://www.hds.com/ http://www.hds.com/ - Everybody forgets about HDS, but they do some really amazing work and do staff love it
EDIT: added more companies
- AYBABTME 13y agoFrom my limited experience this summer with Amazon: owning code in production is great. It's a truly awesome and unique learning experience. You get to see big systems fail in so many ways and solve problems trying to find root cause. Actually, I'd put that as a plus.
- zerr 13y agoDidn't quite understood drawback about Amazon - what do you mean by owning your code in deployment? Also, what's wrong with Autodesk?
- Qworg 13y ago"Owning code in deployment" = "on call for any code problems in your group, even code you didn't write". At least that's how it was explained when if interviewed there.
- city41 13y agoI'd also include Rally Software in that list (I work for Rally). They've won numerous "best place to work" awards: http://www.rallydev.com/awards http://www.rallydev.com/awards
- 3pt14159 13y agoThe problem with SAS is that their software is old and only sold to enterprises that have been swindled into buying it when the open source alternatives are superior.
- samspenc 13y agoDo you mind if I ask: which open source software competes with SAS? I know a friend working in a BigCo who swears by SAS.
- boot 13y agoI sort of use SAS sometimes. There are definite downsides, like the UI/IDE is an abomination from the 1980s. And anything except the most straight forward of code is impossible to read (and many other things). However, in terms of being fast and being and all-in-one language+data solution (meaning no calls to a seperate database solution) it has something to say for it. But yeah, I sort of hate it. If it had modern syntax and data structures and UI it might not be bad.