- 100% remote only
- Flexible schedule (e.g., I can start at at 8am or at 10am. I can go and pick up the kids at 2pm from school. I have a dentist appointment tomorrow morning. Etc.)
- salary. At least 15% more than what I’m making now
- standard health insurance
- vacation days. No BS (e.g., unlimited vacation), just plain usual number of vacation days (around 30 where I live)
- people. I take a look at LinkedIn and check out the people who work there (experience, past companies, personal websites, Twitter profiles, etc.)
- product. Is it actually something I don’t hate?
- tech stack. Is it something I actually don’t hate? Would the stack make me more employable in the future?
- no on-call. This is getting more difficult to be picky about with all this stupid movement “you build it you run it”
- hardware. I hope I can choose the hardware
Everything else (conference budgets, learning budgets, etc.) are nice to haves but I couldn’t care less.