I joined a new employer months ago and this new employer is taking deliberate efforts to ensure they are a wonderful employer from a developer perspective.

Things they do right:

* Typically one scheduled meeting per day, agile standup, that typically lasts 10 minutes.

* Lots of pair programming and team assistance.

* High selectivity for new employees based primarily on personality, honesty, organizational capabilities, interests, and potential. There was no code test or leet code during the interview.

* They strongly encourage initiative in the code. For example I would like to introduce TypeScript to the code base and increase automation. They are completely fine with that so it’s on me to work that in and ensure I am not breaking things.

* They have a high level of incentive pay for going above and beyond.

* They listen deeply thereby encouraging team members to fully and openly disclose their insecurities, risks, and challenges on their current work. It’s better to fail early as an individual and deliver successfully as a team.