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Apart from salary, wfh and flexitime. What are other factors that make a developer role appealing?

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Apart from salary, wfh and flexitime. What are other factors that make a developer role appealing?

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• Social impact of work
• Its fun
• Anti harrasment policy
• Learning policies
• Expense policies
• Support
• Paternal policies
• Transparency
• Working with nice / talented people
• Career Progression
• Mentoring
• Clear involvement in the industry (attending conferences, meet ups, workshops etc...)
• Training & support
• Culture
• Conference policy: whether they’ll let you embrace a powerful support network
• People you’d like to learn from: skilled people who can teach you (and are willing to do it)
• What you can learn: the support to specialise or generalise in technologies or skills
• Genuine commitment to training, allowing conference attendance etc
• Mastery/learning/personal project time
• Career progression
• Doing user research, prototyping, iterating, then doing it again, BEFORE developing production code
• A culture of trust; micromanagement achieves nothing
• Learning opportunities. Not even necessarily when it comes to code
• Freedom of setup choice (preferably using your own machine)
• Autonomy

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