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Will work at Google soon
Microsoft
- has a long history, B2B
- has an extremely good work-life balance
- has very specified roles and positions
- uses a lot of internal technologies
Palantir
- employees were very proud of their work and progress
- the company was young at the time (avg. 24 years old)
- very good employee welfare
Google
- felt like a giant machine-learning research facility
- it took a lot of effort to write good software, even if it slowed down the dev
- developers had a lot of voice and representation
- Google had a pretty good work-life balance.
  - not on the level of Microsoft
  - but Microsoft sometimes felt too loose
Amazon
- Businesspeople had a lot of voices
- Developers focused on speed; make-it-first-then-fix-it
- Developer culture was very loose
- People sometimes didn't help out much
- Everyone had to do on-call work
- lots of top-down blaming

I love my job because...

I like Google because of its great developer culture. It also has a moderately tense environment, making me future-proof and competitive.