I'm in the middle of a casual job search, and evaluating companies is difficult.
Values are important to me, so people recommend that I try `keyvalues.com`. But that site is basically matching what you think is important to what the company is willing to say about itself.
Values are expressed through choices. It's nice to say "we value representation", but if you had conflict between a superstar jerk and an underrepresented minority junior, who would be dismissed or reassigned? If you make a choice for one or the other, there's evidence for what you actually value.
I drew up a list of things that might be determined empirically, if you were somehow omniscient about what the company did.
- demographics of who works there
- how decisions are made, maybe with evidence and standard codes for how it works out.
- what software processes are you currently using and how effective are they?
- how often do you release?
- retention period
- salary
- general worker happiness
- company growing
- customer happiness
- customer promotion
- impacts and externalities on the world, generally
Would this be feasible? Would companies be willing to go under the microscope like this, even allow anonymous polling of their employees?
Values are important to me, so people recommend that I try `keyvalues.com`. But that site is basically matching what you think is important to what the company is willing to say about itself.
Values are expressed through choices. It's nice to say "we value representation", but if you had conflict between a superstar jerk and an underrepresented minority junior, who would be dismissed or reassigned? If you make a choice for one or the other, there's evidence for what you actually value.
I drew up a list of things that might be determined empirically, if you were somehow omniscient about what the company did.
- demographics of who works there
- how decisions are made, maybe with evidence and standard codes for how it works out.
- what software processes are you currently using and how effective are they?
- how often do you release?
- retention period
- salary
- general worker happiness
- company growing
- customer happiness
- customer promotion
- impacts and externalities on the world, generally
Would this be feasible? Would companies be willing to go under the microscope like this, even allow anonymous polling of their employees?