Ask HN: Programmers, what are your min requirements? What is your utopia?

Re:Ask HN: Programmers, what are your min requirements? What... by NullReference on Friday October 10, 2014 @07:53AM (#8437242)

I guess I am wondering more: what sort of work would make you say "hey, I want to go work there!"

I guess I'm trying to figure this out in reverse. I know I'd leave whatever I'm doing to work for, say, Google because Google (really: I needn't say more, right?).

But what makes Google so attractive? Some of it is the bragging rights but a lot of is that they work on cool things and give you free reign to do cool things.

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Re:Ask HN: Programmers, what are your min requirements? What... by ramtatatam on Friday October 10, 2014 @08:09AM (#8437293)

I'm working on custom integrations tailored to specific project so for me each project is like a new job where I'm picking up tools and technologies that will deliver stable and maintainable outcome. New job, new people and new challenges - that keeps me sorta away from burning out. So I guess the main question is how much influence do you want to have? Do you want to craft specific algorithm that is somebody else idea? Or do you want to come up with your own ideas and bring them alive? I'm in second group.

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