Ask HN: Salary/equity aside, what would your ideal job offer consist of?

Some cash would be nice to get as well :)

Signing bonus, RSU's of publicly traded Co, relaxing WFH-friendly environment

Lots of paid vacation. And not the "unlimited" kind, I mean dedicated days that roll over and pay out when you leave.

Earning more than >= $100k/yr as a remote dev. I'm from the Philippines.

Flexibility, autonomy, clarity in strategy, open communication, a genuine effort to do the right thing and a clear drive to win as a business from which all the other points flow.

- Working 4 days a week.

- 6 weeks of (paid) vacation

- Private office, with a door

- Ability to partially work from home

- No on-call

These are probably less about the offer and more about working environment:

- Freedom to choose my tools (incl. laptop, development OS)

- No Agile

- No team, or very small team with smart colleagues

To summarize, the above are about satisfying two needs: for authonomy, and to not be worked to the bone.

The freedom to work on whatever I wanted (it would be computational chemistry for the next 5 years)

Enough salary to not worry about money.

All of my work and datasets are open source so everyone can benefit.

The ability to mentor juniors as I enjoy teaching.

The ability to work my own hours - because this is more productive (I frequently do 4-5 hours work, take a 2 hour nap, then do another 4-5 hours) every day

In order from most realistic to pipe dream: Meetings don't happen without agendas and needing input from everyone. Hard problems where half-baked solutions genuinely can't work for the business (this is why I gravitated to ads and payments). If I conduct interviews, attract a good portion of strong candidates I'll be excited to work with, and filter out the ones who can't code at all. Don't put me on call for stuff I didn't write with no runbook (corollary: get runbooks written before the whole team moves on). Windows of undisturbed time for deep work. Support DSL design; don't limit me to blub languages and libraries that the median candidate can handle. Let me ramp up on formal methods and start using them.

Working remotely as a dev.

- working 5 days a week, 4 to 6hs per day on my own schedule (most of the time)

- 8 weeks of paid vacation

- interesting and high value work

- private office when I need/want to go

- remote whenever I don't need/want to go to the office

- 5x the salary needed to mantain a frugal style of living