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Direct team members and Rich B. are fantastic. Fully remote work. Usually, a simple technical interview about JavaScript/TypeScript basics, Node.js basics, and Angular basics is required to get hired. Overall, the work is pretty simple.

Aetna, the company you will work for, offers terrible insurance with high deductibles and high monthly costs. The plans aren't as good as former employers offered that used Aetna. They have a yearly employee survey that shows this is a major concern, and it is ignored every year.

You have 7 vacation/sick days in total.

We don't have the paid version of GitLab, so managing merge requests is a pretty manual process.

We don't have a great CI/CD setup. Deployments fail for inconsistent reasons. This could probably be fixed by using the paid GitLab CI or paying to increase our Jenkins instances, but it is unlikely to happen.

Please give us better insurance. At the current cost, it's like I am paying you to work for you.

Please give better time off. Seven paid days are not enough; please double or triple it. Honestly, I was surprised by how few company-level holidays there are.

Please listen to your engineering teams when they ask for the same paid products repeatedly. The current situation has led to rework that has caused deadlines to be missed. Most of the tools requested would have prevented that.