The most frustrating part of job searching, for me, is that I can only work for one awesome company at a time, and the industry currently frowns upon stints of less than a year. Maybe this is why people go into freelancing? Anyway, for my future edification, here are the companies that are currently on my radar for a few years from now, and why (obviously there will be a lot more companies in the world a year or two or five from now)

I like being able to stick my nose into a lot of different code, while making deep contributions to a small set of projects.

OMG:

  • SpaceX (domain, prestige) even though I hear meh things about their internal team style and collaboration, the prestige would be worth it to me.
  • Tesla (prestige)
  • ThoughtWorks (friends, variety)
  • Google (prestige)
  • PlanetLab (domain)
  • OpenGov (domain)
  • USDS/18F (domain)
  • JIBO and/or wherever Cy is at (people)
  • Ames Advanced Fabrication / NASA (domain, prestige)
  • Virgin Galactic (domain, prestige)
  • Akamai (domain, geek prestige)
  • Cloudflare (domain)
  • OneMedical (people, domain, tech(ruby))
  • WhisperSystems (domain)
  • PagerDuty (domain, friend)
  • Procore much ruby (domain, tech(ruby), friend(Syster))
  • Bayes Impact (impact, friend)
  • Slack (friend, domain, tech)
  • Square (friend, domain)

Maybe?

  • Walmart Labs (tech)
  • Binti (doing good in the world)
  • altvr (domain)
  • CarbonFive (location, variety)
  • SolarCity (domain)
  • Malwarebytes (domain)
  • Twitter - I love what they build, cool problems (domain, tech)
  • facebook - cool problems (prestige, tech)
  • Wolfram - cool problems (domain, tech)
  • http://www.staples-sparx.com/ they have pinged me a lot and they were a strangeloop and there is clojure and they sound pretty cool (tech)
  • Simple.com - does cool stuff! <3 product (domain)
  • clearent - payment processing - meh, maybe? Gotta know more (domain)
  • PlanGrid - construction blueprints (domain, tech)
  • arianespace - rockets!! (domain)
  • Nuclear tech (domain)
  • LifeLink, a VC backed startup currently in stealth mode, connects patients and healthcare systems around the globe through an open, collaborative * platform built on structured data. (domain)
  • Salesforce (domain, prestige)
  • Spire (domain)
  • Truss - 18F ish?
  • empirespace.nyc
  • @SpaceVR
  • Pivotal? They sounds kinda like TW but with less P3, team-swapping, travel
  • NationBuilder
  • Memrise

There is a NO list but it’s not going on the internet. :)

Cool dev ways to make resumes:

Actually-good recruiters with whom I’ve personally interacted: