[miql]

Is there a listing or resource of companies that actually respects its employees' work-life balance? After this last death march of the past six months, I'm willing to sacrifice salary for a company that plans accordingly and is not constantly in firedrill/ASAP mode. The long hours no longer justify the "competitive salary."

[dredmorbius]

Glassdoor can at least give you some insights.

I find media-bestowed "best places to work" awards tend to be greatly overstated.

Look for shops with people genuinely happy to do what they're doing, and sticking with it for a long time. Often out of the limelight. Attitude toward customers /end users is also key (it should be positive).

For a time Google seemed to have this, though I believe they're slipping.

[moocow01]

Just don't look for 'best places to work' surveys. I find that it as if they just take a random sampling of big employers. In fact you'll find Zynga on many of the lists for their 'perks'. After running circles through many hot companies for the past 8 years, I finally found a company that treats employees very well - very healthy company culturally currently. On top of it, it happens to be a big company that people would recognize but probably would have to google to remember what they do. Its not a perfect situation but I finally feel like somewhat of a human being after hopping from death march to death march which inevitably just lead to the eventual death of the project.

So I guess my advice is to open up to companies that you might not think of immediately because industries and companies have varying cultures.