[Nick-Craver]

Stack Overflow employee here. This is just my view, but: I wouldn't want to work for Google r Facebook over Stack Overflow. Happiness is part of the compensation and is has real value in choosing where to work.

Would I make more dollars working for Google? Sure. But I couldn't work remote. And I can't make an impact like I can here. Right now I can rapidly push out changes to help millions of people and interact with them directly, every day. That's a really rare thing and something that you just can't do or do on the same level once you're part of a much more massive machine.

Does Google make an impact? Of course, you'd be crazy to argue they don't make a massive one. But I'd argue employees 1-50 were able to do a lot more to change the world with their hours in a week than employees 60,000-60,050 are able to. I want to improve people's lives, every day. I just can't do that or be as close to the result if I did it working somewhere like Google or Microsoft. There's value in these things, to me.