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Companies I want to work for:
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WARNING: this is a draft and the list is by no means complete.

Methodology:

  1. Meaningful product:
  2. Do I use it?
  3. Does it solve a real and interesting problem?
  4. Is it important to the well being of others?
  5. Are they small?
  6. Tech stack - Preferably Rails + MongoDb with a hint of Javascript/Coffeescript. As long as it's not Java.
  7. Company culture
  8. Developer working conditions

Not considered:

  1. Pay - Market wages assumed.
  2. Location - As long as it's not in the middle of nowhere.

High match:

  1. Stripe - The first I heard of Stripe was on HN people begging them to come to their county to make payments easier for them. When you've people begging you to come to their country, that's definitely a sign of good product. Then I saw a post by Alex MacCaw about working in Stripe and even since then Stripe has been number one my list. I wanted to quote a copule of advantages, but I just can't pick, go read for yourself.

  2. Github - This is the first Rails app I used and still use after 3 years. It's amazing how much of my personal and work life is tied up on Github, you're after all reading this on gist.github.com. Most of my git repos are hosted on Github and I use gist as a poor man's blog. Its incredible how open they're when it comes to their process, almost to the point of giving away their trade secrets. Like Stripe, I wonder if they can maintain their culture as they grow bigger and bigger. Checkout https://github.com/blog, it seems they're on a quest to hire every Rubyist out there.

  3. CodeAcademy - Anytime a non-programmer asks me how they can get started in programming I say CodeAcademy. Well, I give them a lecture for two hours on how awesomeness of programming and then I show them CodeAcademy. Btw, can someone tell me why they don't offer Ruby lessons, even though their backend is most probably written in Rails?

  4. Crohnology - This is a very interesting company, a social network for people with Crohn's disease. I don't have it, I don't even know anyone who has it. Sometimes I forget there are real people outside the SV echo chamber, but they haven't. I came across their jobs page a while back, but can't seem to find it anymore, guess they took it down.

  5. Intridea - Omniauth, grape, multi_json are some of their open source stuff I've used, in the past month. I can't remember the last time I built a Rails app without using Omniauth for authentication, not just username/password, but also twitter, facebook & github oAuth.

Medium match:

  1. Amicus - This isn't on the above list because I know very little about them. They seem to have a decent and important product and are helping non-profits make more money, but that's all I know about them. Honestly I just want the Iron Man Deluxe Helmet they offer if you work with them.

  2. Swiftype - I really like their docs, very well written and they're solving a hard problem: offering search to websites. Like Amicus I know very litte about the company culture or team.

Hail Mary:

  1. PeepCode - I learned how to use vim, commandline and CoffeeScript from them and have had a unlimited subscription with them for the past three years. And don't even get me started on how awesome the play by play series are.

  2. Google - No jobs list is complete without them. I mean self driving cars!

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