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They’re headquartered in Amsterdam, not SF, but Booking.com are probably worth a mention. (They have offices globally.)

I was invited over to their HQ to give a talk late last year and wow. An amazing company, every employee has a huge smile and nothing but great things to say, they have a really great culture, are a very wealthy company, and engineers are given a lot of freedom. Had I not just started working for myself, I would have taken them up on the full-time jobs they offered me!

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I've heard the opposite.... very very opposite. They have scorched the Perl community from what I heard.

EDIT: http://blogs.perl.org/users/booking_employee/2014/01/booking...

http://blogs.perl.org/users/bookingemployee/2012/03/truth-ab...

I work there as a senior developer and those blog posts couldn't be further from the truth. There was some discussion about them on Reddit a while ago that I contributed too (I'm "avar" there too): http://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/1mkdl4/what_exactly_is...

Anyway to reply to @csswizardry while we have offices worldwide (including in SF) the only office where we're hiring developers/sysadmins is in Amsterdam, and very small sysadmin operations in Seattle/Singapore that mostly handle pager load outside of Amsterdam office hours.

If anyone's interested I'd be happy to field questions about it, my E-mail is listed in my profile.

>It is estimated that the Dutch transported 550,000-600,000 Africans as slaves. Although slavery is banned, the Dutch society still has exploitation of expats ingrained in their mentality.

Just read the blog... what the hell?

Indeed, the law he's referring to applies to everyone. Expat or not. He later on clarifies that it solely applies to Booking.com. This kind of emotional writing I can do without. It is way too easy to assume he's talking about all Dutch people, so IMO badly written and not worth it.

Thank you for this. The comments are funny. Most of them are the exact "layer" he was mentioning in his article.

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