201 karma · joined November 30, 2019
- Has 40 hour or less work weeks
- Rarely requires overtime work
- Has a good amount of paid time off (Bonus points if they encourage employees to take a time off, like they require you to utilize all your paid time off and/or they provide a bonus if you take a time off)
- Remote friendly
- Communication is asynchronous by default
- Well known publicly that the company value work-life balance
- Offers good employee benefits (e.g, https://basecamp.com/handbook/08-benefits-and-perks)
Since you mentioned Gitlab, I remember their database incident last 2 years and if I remember correctly, instead of blaming and firing the engineer who accidentally deleted the production database, they owned the responsibility and admitted that there were lots of red flags from the company side of things like db backups weren't working etc... I think they handled the issue properly. So plus points for them <3