Re:Glassdoor: Airbnb dethrones Google as the best tech compa...
by eloisant on Thursday December 10, 2015 @05:41AM
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Well, not exactly what the parent describe but you have "laid-back" lucrative companies. In France it's banks, insurances, etc. You can't necessarily WFH easily but with more than 7 weeks of PTO it's more like "no work from home" when you feel like it.
They're lucrative because they have money to throw around, you don't have to work very hard because they don't like risk anyway so everything moves slowly.
The downside is that work is boring, slow-paced with old tech. Think J2EE stuck on Java 6, on the front you have to use jQuery 1.7 and they need a committee to decide to validate usage of jQuery 1.8. Sometimes you might get to write a cool prototype with recent tech but they'll just say "yeah it's cool but we can't integrate it with our legacy code", etc. Once in a while they pick a shiny new tech for their "new platform" (like Angular) but by the time their whole codebase is migrated the "new platform" is obsolete ("Angular 1 sucks I want to use Angular 2/React!")
They're lucrative because they have money to throw around, you don't have to work very hard because they don't like risk anyway so everything moves slowly.
The downside is that work is boring, slow-paced with old tech. Think J2EE stuck on Java 6, on the front you have to use jQuery 1.7 and they need a committee to decide to validate usage of jQuery 1.8. Sometimes you might get to write a cool prototype with recent tech but they'll just say "yeah it's cool but we can't integrate it with our legacy code", etc. Once in a while they pick a shiny new tech for their "new platform" (like Angular) but by the time their whole codebase is migrated the "new platform" is obsolete ("Angular 1 sucks I want to use Angular 2/React!")