Re:Ask HN: Salary/equity aside, what would your ideal job of...
by malux85 on Thursday January 10, 2019 @03:27AM
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The freedom to work on whatever I wanted (it would be computational chemistry for the next 5 years)
Enough salary to not worry about money.
All of my work and datasets are open source so everyone can benefit.
The ability to mentor juniors as I enjoy teaching.
The ability to work my own hours - because this is more productive (I frequently do 4-5 hours work, take a 2 hour nap, then do another 4-5 hours) every day
Re:Ask HN: Salary/equity aside, what would your ideal job of...
by erik_seaberg on Thursday January 10, 2019 @03:45AM
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In order from most realistic to pipe dream: Meetings don't happen without agendas and needing input from everyone. Hard problems where half-baked solutions genuinely can't work for the business (this is why I gravitated to ads and payments). If I conduct interviews, attract a good portion of strong candidates I'll be excited to work with, and filter out the ones who can't code at all. Don't put me on call for stuff I didn't write with no runbook (corollary: get runbooks written before the whole team moves on). Windows of undisturbed time for deep work. Support DSL design; don't limit me to blub languages and libraries that the median candidate can handle. Let me ramp up on formal methods and start using them.
Re:Ask HN: Salary/equity aside, what would your ideal job of...
by askafriend on Thursday January 10, 2019 @01:08AM
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Flexibility, autonomy, clarity in strategy, open communication, a genuine effort to do the right thing and a clear drive to win as a business from which all the other points flow.
- 6 weeks of (paid) vacation
- Private office, with a door
- Ability to partially work from home
- No on-call
These are probably less about the offer and more about working environment:
- Freedom to choose my tools (incl. laptop, development OS)
- No Agile
- No team, or very small team with smart colleagues
To summarize, the above are about satisfying two needs: for authonomy, and to not be worked to the bone.
Enough salary to not worry about money.
All of my work and datasets are open source so everyone can benefit.
The ability to mentor juniors as I enjoy teaching.
The ability to work my own hours - because this is more productive (I frequently do 4-5 hours work, take a 2 hour nap, then do another 4-5 hours) every day
- 8 weeks of paid vacation
- interesting and high value work
- private office when I need/want to go
- remote whenever I don't need/want to go to the office
- 5x the salary needed to mantain a frugal style of living