YARW - Yet Another RemoteWork Website
Also this link in particular shows the most important metric that everyone is neglecting in other similar sites: how many cities your "remote" company cover?
It's also an important metric to understand the company colture: for eg. a lot of US-based remote companies hire only US-based employees
And you're right. It helps to understand the company's remote culture. How remote are they? Will you be part of a remote team covering the whole globe or are you one of the two remote team members.
Both are cool! People just like different things. I mean, when you join a fully remote company, there's probably a remote culture in place. But when you're one of the first remote members, maybe you can be part of shaping the culture yourself.
But calling them "top". Yeah, not a competition or anything. Just for fun, really.
I've started with "interviews". Basically a list of questions remote companies can answer. Not too many yet, but some: https://remotehub.io/remote-work
It'd be interesting to know more about why and how people ended up working remote, how it impacts their lives, how it impacts their job search, how it impacts their day-to-day work, what kind of sacrifice (if any) was required to go remote, what sort of experience did they have to start with, etc.
Anyways, Buffer did a nice report: https://buffer.com/state-of-remote-work-2019
and they are working on new one together with Angel List (maybe more).
I'm trying to put my effort to these remote company maps. I think it's cool to see how distributed the team is when planning to join.
Some companies are fully remote. Some have only a few remote team members next to a big office. Some located in North America. Some covering basically the whole globe.