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Rackspace, cloud server company. https://github.com/rackspace https://github.com/rackspace https://github.com/rackerlabs https://github.com/rackerlabs - 401K
by HappyRSEmployee 13y ago
Rackspace, cloud server company.
https://github.com/rackspace https://github.com/rackspace
https://github.com/rackerlabs https://github.com/rackerlabs
- 401K is available. Salary is competitive market rate for SF tech even if you're not a particularly strong salary negotiator. Quarterly bonuses, shows up as another ACH deposit to your bank account besides your regular bi-weekly(Fridays) deposit. Commuter-card, currently $125 free a month. If you want more than that, it's deducted pre-tax from your paycheck. Currently healthcare is Humana & Kaiser.
- Opensource is the name of the game. Built on Openstack, so python is big here but we do have Ruby and nodejs too; and probably other languages I'm not remembering right nwo. Challenging problems exist to work on and still given room to develop new ideas and pitch them to upper-management. Also allows at least 1 day a month for hack-a-thon to work on anything you want(ya know, as long as it's legal and not NSFW). I saw the beginnings of floobits.com when it was alpha-ware that crashed. They ended up being accepted into YCombinator.
- Life balance focused. There isn't the attitude that burning beyond 40hr/weeks is expected at all.
- Stable. I don't see Rackspace disappearing anytime soon.
- We have several people who work from home at least twice a week.
- Main HQ is actually in Texas, but the SF office isn't bad. No cubicles, open plan. Big eating area, foosball, table-tennis, plenty of space to bring your bike into the office and a machine that makes bubbly water. Free drinks like ice tea and diet soda. The soda is kept out of site though because people are trying to be healthy. Out of side, out of mind ;) ...But if you know where to look, you can get it. There's an Xbox on a big screen TV that people sometimes play football(as in soccer) on too.