The Inquisitive Coder – Davy Brion's Blog

The perfect workplace for me is a place where:

• People have the required skills and motivation to perform their jobs competently
• People are honest about mistakes they make… after all, we all make them so we might as well all be honest about them
• People who play the political game are fired, or if possible, not hired
• People aren’t offended when told that something they did was not good or could be better
• People who are sick just stay home instead of infecting others
• It is accepted that developers spend a little of their worktime to read blogs, mailinglists, etc… to learn
• People are judged on what they do, not how busy they look
• People who work together on something are located in the same room
• People have enough common sense to go to a meeting room or a more secluded area to discuss something that is specific to their project, so they won’t bother everyone else in the room. If that’s not possible, a little bit of voice control would be nice
• People don’t engage in Buzzword Driven Development ( = claiming to do certain practices or activities while in reality hardly doing them or doing a half-assed job of them)
• Managers trust the developers
• Managers don’t make promises they know they can’t keep
• Managers prefer a long-term vision instead of going for the quick short-term win while completely ignoring the negative consequences that will pop up after they have been reassigned
• They have proper airconditioning
• You have access to cheap (or free) drinks and snacks of a wide variety

Unfortunately I was sentenced to Enterprise Hell about 5.5 years ago so I’m not used to most of the stuff mentioned in the list… luckily i’m up for parole in about 2 months!