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development process

clear requirements 2.0
design and planning 2.5
quality assurance 3.0
automated testing 3.5
peer review 3.0
development environment 2.0
development hardware 2.0
physical workspace 2.0
infrastructure and support 2.0
issue tracking 1.5
source control 3.0
product quality 2.5

culture

cultivation of creativity 2.0
mitigation of risk 2.5
reasonable workload 3.5
prevention of crunch time 3.0
hitting deadlines 2.5
taking responsibility 3.5
development autonomy 3.0
keeping ego in check 3.0

compensation

salary 2.5
health coverage 3.0
paid time off 2.5
snacks 1.0
other perks 1.5

organization

advancement opportunities 2.5
employee retention 3.0
hiring process 2.5
quality of development management 2.5
quality of upper management 2.0
quality of developers 3.0
team-to-team communication 2.0
internal team communication 3.0
management-developer communication 2.0

general

location 1.0
nearby food 1.5
business model 3.0
cool technology 2.5
vision and strategy 3.0
warm fuzzy feeling 3.0
overall 3.0

preferences

casual dress code 3.0
use of Free Software 3.5
development of Free Software 1.5
use of GNU/Linux 3.5
use of Mac OS 2.5
use of Solaris 1.5
use of Windows 4.0
use of BSD 1.0
use of Python 1.5
use of Perl 4.0
use of Ruby 1.5
use of Lisp 1.5
use of Java 1.5
use of C# 1.0
use of Objective-C 1.0
use of C 1.5
use of C++ 1.0
use of PHP 1.0
use of ASP 1.0
use of legacy languages 1.0
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Rentrak

Rentrak supplies business intelligence software to the entertainment industry. Rentrak's software helps movie studios, television networks, cable operators, retail chains, etc. identify trends in and make predictions about their customers' activity.

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  • 2.0 mediocrity abounds posted on September 13, 2008

    There is a decent proportion of competent developers, but there are also some boobs and people who have been around forever, gathering dust. Rentrak seems to suffer from the dead sea effect, where smart people move on and lame people hang around. The business is dedicated to serving a corrupt and fairly disgusting industry, that being the entertainment industry. The code is giant, boring, and Perl. It's not horrible but it's nothing to write home about more...

  • 3.0 I'm not the smartest guy in the room posted on September 14, 2006

    I've worked at several other jobs and there are times where it feels like you're the only one who really knows what's going on.

    However, at Rentrak, I feel like the other developers really know their stuff. Also, I feel like Rentrak has the highest concentration of smart developers I've seen.

    The code-base is surpisingly clean, with very few bugs and bad hacks.

    I feel like the only thing they need to work on is developer-love. They could do a better job of more...

  • 4.0 Rentrak > * posted on September 14, 2006

    40-hour weeks, brilliant coworkers, interesting work. What more could you want?

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