Which companies are worth working right now?
Google was a great place and an optimal combination of good work, amazing colleagues, wlb and flexibility, pay and benefits. You could certainly get one (or two) of these elsewhere but the combination was very difficult to find. It's steeply declining and is the next Amazon in the making. Meta, Amazon, Databricks are high stress. TikTok is 996. LinkedIn and Atlassian used to be good places to work, looks like not anymore. Microsoft is low pay and rolling layoffs. Netflix doesn't hire a lot. So maybe Apple or Uber? Any other companies?
Location? And are you fine with paper money?
Might as well tell the names with those qualifiers, will be helpful
Looks like Netflix is doing the right thing. Apple is great.
It depends what you’re optimizing for. Tc, wlb, etc
If there's a sweet spot, I would love that. Google was one at some point. Otherwise decent pay with good wlb.
The standard formula is waking hours - utility(chore hours) - avg(work hours) = leisure hours * 1.35(hourly wage) = wlb for each year over 18 raise to the .85, and then when past 62 raise to the 1.25 Or just get a daily mood tracker and see what activities make you happy. Then see if working or not working makes you happier. Do more of whatever makes you happier.
Nvidia
Good one! How's the culture there?
I don't work there but I hear it has great wlb with decent pay. They're one of the few companies not laying people off plus their stocks are soaring
Coinbase
Are the frontend positions good? What’s the stack like?
One of the best. We use react, recoil react native
Unfortunately Google is still the best we got.
I wish I knew… Netflix does seem solid. Airbnb? Pinterest? Stripe? Block?
The offers I’ve seen from Apple are pretty low compared to the rest of FAANG. Seems like a solid, cozy company, but the comp may not be where you’d like it. I think Netflix is the best tech employer right now. Finance—like Jane Street—may have surpassed FAANG in compensation, but they’re in-office and they seem to have higher-than-average stress. Maybe I’m wrong about the stress though.
WITCH
pretty sure apple will have its reckoning eventually. One can only coast off incremental product releases and the becky money supply and xi manufacturing supply for so long