I'm a backend software developer, but I rarely do some frontend too.

This all reminds me of an old discussion I had with z3bra about why he doesn't do software development for a living, he said it was because he would then get bored of it and that for him it wouldn't be a hobby anymore. For me it's the opposite, programming is my job and Unix is my hobby.

Some cool points:

• We use Redhat, Solaris, Oracle, a lot
  
• We have a PHP, Perl, C++, C backend and I get to play with a lot of different technologies
  
• From day 1 I installed a distro on my laptop, no issue with that
  
• Installers/support engineers get a lot of training but I can still help a bunch with knowledge they don't get in those "company sponsored trainings"
  
• Ironically I've been given many tasks where I got the responsability of making the compatibility layer between our Unix servers and windows services. But that puts my mindset back on track, we live in a connected world that has multiple kinds of tech.
  
• It's a very filtered environment full of interesting and smart people. I have many fruitful conversations with them. The company culture is very healthy.
  
• We recently got the ISO24K, for info security, and so we're getting tighter on that, which is good in my opinion.
  

(12-04-2017, 11:53 AM)pyratebeard Wrote: Technologists: is there a workplace benefit you would would value over higher pay?

For the moment that would be to spend less time on the road. It's slowly been killing me the last few months. The back pain is increasing, and it's been affecting my focus.

Even though the work schedule is flexible and I'm coming early to avoid traffic, I still have to do 3 to 4h of traffic a day.
Hopefully I'm in the process of looking for an apartment closer to work.

Working remotely from home would be a perfect option.

So on that note, maybe I've got a bit of a bias for beeing comfortable at work. In fact it's not really work but how tired it can physically be to get there to begin with.