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Show HN: Find your place to CodeHappy

2 pointsby smithgeekover 9 years ago

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smithgeekover 9 years ago
This is a site I&#x27;ve wanted at various times, but could never find anyting like it. Since I had a little free time I decided to put something together and see if anyone else thinks it is a useful idea. The idea is kind of like GlassDoor but stricly for software attributes. I think most programmers have certain attributes they want in a job (maybe they only want to work with git, or they only want to work some place that practices TDD, etc), but it&#x27;s not always easy to know what the company programming philosophy is. If you don&#x27;t know any employees you&#x27;d have to go through the interview process and try to decipher what the place is really like. It&#x27;d be better if we could get a pretty good idea before wasting time in an interview for a place we don&#x27;t want to work.<p>The way it works is you fill out a survey for the place you work (we start with questions from the Joel Test and then we&#x27;ve added some more that we could think of). You can search for a company and see all the results that have been submitted (for example <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;codehappy.info&#x2F;report?company=MomCorp" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;codehappy.info&#x2F;report?company=MomCorp</a>). All the data is anonymous and we only require a github login to prevent spamming. We chose a github account since we figured it was something many developers would already have, but this is something else we&#x27;d like feedback on. We don&#x27;t want to rank companies as many questions don&#x27;t have a correct answer, we just want to make the information easier to find.<p>The site is pretty crude as it is now as this is a true MVP since I&#x27;m not sure if enough other people want something like this. We just launched it so there isn&#x27;t really any data to search yet and so I need to see if people will fill out the survey. I&#x27;d really like some feedback especially on the questions asked in the survey and&#x2F;or ideas for more questions. If this catches on I have some ideas for improvements and an advanced search option. Let me know what you think!