Ask HN: Your job satisfaction?

I just left my job a few months ago because I wasn&#x27;t happy. These responses apply to that job.<p>1. The money was good ($175k as director of engineering in Los Angeles) and the hours were 9-5.<p>2. I wish I had more autonomy to manage my team. Although I was director, engineering was basically under the control of product and upper management. Unfortunately they knew nothing about how engineering works.<p>3. A chance to define a new role, possibly R&amp;D or skunk works, so I could contribute but not be bound by the traditional management hierarchy.<p>4. Ultimately nothing, since he was the problem. He is CEO of a tech company but he can&#x27;t even plug in a thumb drive. He has said in the past he views engineering as &quot;black magic&quot; because he doesn&#x27;t understand it.

1. Work Flexibility and challenging problems to solve. I love the work&#x2F;life balance in my workplace as it stands. Work doesn&#x27;t interfere with my life on weekends and in evenings.<p>2. There should be a clearer channel to communicate with the different stakeholders. I might have good product ideas, regardless of what my designation is (engineer, in my case). There should be an easier way to get feedback on ideas - good or bad.<p>3. Lopsided workloads should be regulated. It will be nice if all teams were equally loaded. In my case, I have a very reasonable schedule, but in some of my friends&#x27; case they work really hard!<p>4. Give people more responsibilities! Nothing teaches leadership like taking up ownership.

I&#x27;m just gonna answer the questions I feel comfortable with.<p>1) What are some of the best things you value at your job?<p>The clients I work for are huge, well known companies. The work is interesting, and I&#x27;m learning a lot from the other developers. They like to encourage professional growth.<p>3) Besides money what is the one thing you wish your organization would offer you?<p>Getting to work remotely as often as I&#x27;d like, which would be like 3-4 days a week. Higher matching for the retirement plan comes in second.

1) Rapport with Boss,Challenges, new technologies, value of participation, projects in pipeline, company&#x27;s financial health<p>2) Putting less skilled people in middle mgmt on top of engineers (thats a big putoff bcoz we do check their profiles), measuring work more, valuing people that actually work more<p>3) Sports area, occasional hangouts, spare time for personal projects<p>4) News updates, taking reviews, giving feedback, more involved, valuing tech stuff, following future market trends

1)Flexibility 2)My organization is perfectly right.I don&#x27;t like to change any thing. 3)i would like to have entertaining programs monthly in my organization.