What's Your Dream Company to Work For?
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Not sure yet. Plantronics and Webroot are currently on my list though.
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@thanksaj said:
Not sure yet. Plantronics and Webroot are currently on my list though.
Interesting choices as neither is an IT company. One is a hardware vendor and the other is a software (and security) vendor. Neither provides IT as a service externally and neither has a large scale need for IT internally. Webroot, since they have a hosted product (SaaS) would have far more IT than Plantronics from a "more than plumbing" perspective. But as an IT professional, what drives either to be sought after opportunities? Both are great companies to get products from, but to "work at" in an IT role seems odd as dream companies.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@thanksaj said:
Not sure yet. Plantronics and Webroot are currently on my list though.
Interesting choices as neither is an IT company. One is a hardware vendor and the other is a software (and security) vendor. Neither provides IT as a service externally and neither has a large scale need for IT internally. Webroot, since they have a hosted product (SaaS) would have far more IT than Plantronics from a "more than plumbing" perspective. But as an IT professional, what drives either to be sought after opportunities? Both are great companies to get products from, but to "work at" in an IT role seems odd as dream companies.
I actually want to be a sales engineer for Plantronics. I could probably walk in today and do the job swimmingly.
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@scottalanmiller said:
- Microsoft
- Amazon
Having read Gary Paulse's "My Life in Dog Years" and Douglas Coupland's "Microserfs", I don't fancy working at two of those.
I guess, based on your descriptions of IT, that I'm not actually an IT guy, so I can't answer your thread. But I've always been slightly disspointed that I've never been involved in anything truly great - like sending someone to the moon or developing safer cars: creating products that are truly life changing.
That's always been my dilemna. I'm attracted to the cutting edge, but SMBs don't, as a rule, operate on the cutting edge.
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I don't have any definite choices out there. Right now I would like to work for a place where I can do mostly datacenter/infrastructure work and not a lot of helpdesk/user support (although I wouldn't mind that too much). I think one of the big public cloud places would be awesome to work for as, as you've said, they aren't IT companies but their entire business model is based around IT resources being available and having employees educated to support that always available infrastructure.
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as odd as it sounds....I really am thrilled to work for myself.
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Valve, because of their self-organizing teams and peer review system. The paramilitary corporate structure is a vestige from the industrial revolution and is counterproductive to knowledge work. That's why large companies can only innovate by buying small startups.
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Difficult to say. I fight boredom and repetition fatigue daily, my brain needs more stimulus then a regular office can give. Maybe it's burn out that I'm dealing with... but I want more...
Unlikely I'll ever find it...
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@Nic said:
Valve, because of their self-organizing teams and peer review system.
Facebook and Amazon self organize their teams too.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Nic said:
Valve, because of their self-organizing teams and peer review system.
Facebook and Amazon self organize their teams too.
Good - I'm glad to see other companies following their lead.
