I am not a fan of the idea of a “dream” company. Sounds shallow to me.

@molaram Bad Dragon one is surely superior.

At this point, all I want is a good team and decent pay.

A peaceful environment is better than exorbitantly high pay.

All companies have the potential to be a dream , for a fading moment or two.
We are not supposed to be in the same place for long.

Paraphrasing a Batman character, you either leave a company when it starts to turn bad, or stays enough to be working in hell.

Some can hold its shitty breath for a bit longer, though. Most will deploy an army of recruiters because the half-life of it's devs is shorter than antimatter's.

@JsonBoa why aren't we supposed to be there for long? Sounds like a stretch of logic.

@iiii, follow me on that one:

Comp Sci is about identifying problems and offering solutions

Humans have some inherent biases due to affinity with some sorts of problems and solutions

Thus, if a dev stays long enough, the problems that the dev is particularly keen on solving are dust. This includes interpersonal problems

Corollary, the problems the dev does not solve accumulate

Eventually, the residual toxicity kills the Dev's effectiveness and the relationship of the dev and the company

Other types of professionals have those problems too, but computers and a tigth labour market make everything much faster.

It is possible that a well-balanced dev team can solve for each other's pitfalls, and a good manager can prevent social attrition. I will concede that possibility, although I'm yet to observe this fenomena, even by second-hand.

you know i find it funny a man with a name of a poison russian spies used to take would say this :P one might question if your allusions have been aversely affected prior to choosing such a name :P

I'm a fan of it in theory - great pay, great team, loads of holiday, interesting work, work from home, home office budget, unlimited training budget, complete choice of cloud environments, unlimited tool / machine budget... etc.

...but in reality that place doesn't really exist.