[jakobegger]

And here's an opportunity for smaller companies.

I have a small company, and I can't offer my employees the prestige or high salary that larger companies offer.

But I can offer to accommodate whatever other special wishes people have. Want to work just 4 days a week? Fine. Want to work from 12pm to 8pm? Fine. Want to take a day off on short notice? Fine with me.

Larger companies have all kinds of rules and policies in place. In a small company, you can design the policies together with the employees.

[matwood]

This is basically what we do. I think we offer competitive salaries, but also give tons of work flexibility. We judge on work produced, not hours in seats (within reason for meetings or time critical items like customer support) or any other useless metric.

Since each person has to be thought of individually, I can see where it would be hard to scale in a really large environment. Some employees also have a hard time without strict policies in place (weird I know). We make sure to let people know in the interview that responsibility comes with the freedom.

One last thing, we treat every position in the company this way and not just the developers.