Ask HN: Culture at various software companies
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Companies like Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Oracle have a lot of blog posts and the like outlining the culture in the workplace. Googling that is your best bet.
Beyond that, you might have some luck emailing a company you cannot find information on.
Beyond that, you might have some luck emailing a company you cannot find information on.
At Electric Cloud and Scriptics where I worked with John Ousterhout we documented the culture we wanted. See http://home.pacbell.net/ouster/startupCulture.html
- The effect of incentivizing workers with things like free food, on-site pampering, and a quirky, high-tech workplace (e.g. Google)
- Relationships/tension between developers, managers, marketing, etc. (e.g. developers resenting the "pointy-haired boss")
- How culture and work/life balance differ between startups and large corporations
- How the company's mission affects the motivation of its workers (e.g. "eat our own dogfood"/"don't be evil")