Education. I’d be a history professor if I wasn’t averse to getting the accreditation. Next up, housing the unhoused. But I have no skill for that, whereas I have a passion for history and might reach a couple of students.
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Employees owned. Community coop. Non-profit Opensource Community or national service related Trade, manufacturing, backend IT related
Those are all attributes that push me to feeling better about the work personally. The exact opposite of for profit retail experience
Probably add a red flag too. If career progression means management. Management is just a skill set, if getting promoted to that position is the only way "up" then you can expect a bunch of people who rose to the level of their incompetence in charge looking for people like them to promote under them.
Ideologically, I thought the "least bad" for me would be academic research. One year at an institution with a really toxic research culture later, and I'm thinking of either a local small-business or employee co-op or running a small business based on my special interest so... yeah.
working academic research is awesome. or it would be if it paid adequately.
Companies where there are long tenured employees outside of management is my ultimate green flag. If you can figure out who is in management by drawing names out of a hat by senority and stop when you run through 80% of managers without hitting a single IC then you should be aware that ICs have very little say in how the company is run so half the managers are there out of frustration because they needed to become a manager to enact change.
Screw "say in how the company is run", I'll settle for the money. Pay me and I will work. Pay me more and I will keep working. My current employers understood the assignment, I still have a long career progression without going into management.
My last interview, current company, the average tenure of all the people I asked was ~7 years. I would also ask why they've been there so long.
What's IC mean in this context?
Jargon that needs to be dereferenced when it's used the first time. Am I right?
Individual contributor - a term for everyone who isn't a manager.
One thing I've learnt to look for is a kind of company that is not open or active 24/7, something that runs on daytime office hours only. Helps to cut down the possibilities for after hours work bullshit happening.
This last job search was between Amazon and Meta. I was at the offer stage of both. Then a third smaller company came in. I'm pretty sure the third could have been a whaling company and it would have been a less bad option. Was very happy to turn both of them down.
Of all the things that didn't happen, this one happened the least.
Yeah, it's not like a software dev would interview with 2 big software companies, right?
K. Don't need you to believe me. They asked I answered.
Their offering of junk food in the break room as a "benefit".
Probably civil service or non-profit.
I swore I would never work for a large corp ever again after I went non-profit. The culture is totally different and not soul crushing.
I work in the public sector (not at the federal level) and it's great, but uhhhh. I'm sure we'll be fine for a while where I am, but I'm not as enthusiastically pushing it as I was. But goddamn is it nice not working to make some asshole rich.