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2.0 Good hop to a better place posted on November 18, 2007

They have the smartest people. Some real great jobs, and at the same time some really lousy jobs. Pay well. But are a stingy company for other benefits. Really bad retention rates. I can never seem to understand why they require that many engineers. Nobody cares for a developer's time, I guess because they never really ship software to a customer. Have to justify each and every change to millions of people and have them approve it. Have to get redirected to many people to get simple stuff done. Its a place for people who like to fight out their way - everyday.

As a whole, its a good hop to a better place.

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    development process

    clear requirements 1.0
    design and planning 1.0
    quality assurance 1.0
    automated testing 1.0
    peer review 3.0
    development environment 2.0
    development hardware 3.0
    physical workspace 1.0
    infrastructure and support 4.0
    issue tracking 2.0
    source control 3.0
    product quality 4.0

    culture

    cultivation of creativity 4.0
    mitigation of risk 2.0
    reasonable workload 3.0
    prevention of crunch time 1.0
    hitting deadlines 3.0
    taking responsibility 3.0
    development autonomy 1.0
    keeping ego in check 3.0

    compensation

    salary 4.0
    health coverage 4.0
    paid time off 4.0
    snacks 1.0
    other perks 3.0

    organization

    advancement opportunities 4.0
    employee retention 1.0
    hiring process 4.0
    quality of development management 4.0
    quality of upper management 4.0
    quality of developers 4.0
    team-to-team communication 1.0
    internal team communication 4.0
    management-developer communication 3.0

    general

    location 4.0
    nearby food 3.0
    business model 3.0
    cool technology 2.0
    vision and strategy 3.0
    warm fuzzy feeling 1.0
    overall 2.0

    preferences

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