- Everyone, including the C-level uses, knows the etiquette of and is active on a group chat platform such as Slack
- I will work with people in a single time zone or a limited number of adjacent time zones (i.e. no insistance on me being available at 10 am Central European Time and also end-of-day at US-West Time for instance)
- A sufficient coworking space stipend for a "fixed desk" and amenities
- A Berlin office with my team in it or a sufficient travel budget to meet my team or induvidiual coworkers and stake holders in person regularly
- The daily commute can include my gym without an unreasonable detour
- There is a safe place to keep my bike, preferably next to my desk
- I have drawers to keep things in
- Company swag, if any, is delivered using a method that includes customs handling or in person (i.e. no hours-long journeys to the customs office to pick up single keychains or t-shirts).
- Company swag is well designed and made to last
- Food and snacks are not used as compensation for overtime
- Monitoring, overtime and on-call hours are compensated for or result in vacation allowance
- Explicit number og paid vacation days — preferably 30 work days off each year
- Sufficient sick leave allowance, preferably acucmilated
- Excercise, education and health stipend is provided
- A sufficient upgrade budget for railway travel and flights
- Sufficient car rental budget where applicable
- Daily subsistance allowance during business travel may be based on a standard reference like the one provided by ICSC (International Civil Service Commision)
- Sufficient accomidation budget that follows an understandable reference value
- Rest/recovery days before and after travel
- My physical and mental health and safety is ensured during travel
- There are policies in place that allow me to veto travel destinations and transit locations depending on their hostility to queer people, women and other minorities
- At least someone at the company takes care of HR functions full-time
- An HR representetive available to my team
- The team understands the effect ADHD and other neurodiversity syndromes have on work performance, including the positive effects
- Developers and designers work together
- Team lead and management delegates work and responsibilities
- Feedback related to my experience with web accessibility and performance is not only welcome, but expected
- Opportunities to participate in or to initiate important descision making
- Opportunities for public speaking are provided
- Agile methodology used correctly and in a non-abusive way
- Opportunities to train my skills and to work on meaningful open source projects within office hours
- Work on open source projects that the company depends on is not considered extracurricular
- No "distributed monolith" or "interdependent microservices"
- Sufficient equipment and budget for it are provided
- Security policies do not prevent me for using the equipment in an efficient way
- Periods of customer-facing work are provided
- Feature ownership by more than one person is ensured
- Clear company management structure, roles and communication pathways
- The hiring contract only includes legally enforcable clauses
- The company is or can be run as a susatinable business
- No unnecessary or ill-informed micromanagement from founders
- C-level delegates work and does not directly participate in software development functions
- Other women or (non-binary people) are in a similar role or on the same team
- The company is diverse enough, especially on the tech side, for me not to end up as a volunteer diversity officer
- Knowledge management is taken seriously within the company
- The company has a culture of "work to live", not "live to work"
- The company culture does not promte slogans like "embrace the chaos" or "move fast and break things"