GoDaddy

The culture, the people, and the mission all work really well together. As a software engineer, there are plenty of resources and enterprise-level assets behind me. But at the same time, I'm encouraged to take chances, learn on the job, and generally just be happy with what I'm doing. GoDaddy really focuses on making us feel comfortable at work. They provide an awesome lunch every day. They have super-sexy, modern offices with ergonomic everything, including stand-up desks. Agile is a huge focus for engineering, and it's actually practiced and applied in the correct way, not just having a "standup" every morning. Decisions for the most part really feel like they come from a current objective and sound horizontal structure. The last thing I'd say is that the management culture is fantastic. My boss is one of many development managers I know that just kicks butt. He's super respectful and supportive while also driving us to succeed, all while being a great friend in the workplace.

The only cons I can think of have to do with the rapid growth of the company. As more and more people are hired as we grow, I think that it dilutes the growth of the culture by a small amount. I'm really grasping for straws here, though, as I've worked for Amazon, Microsoft, and a few startup companies. GoDaddy, by far, is the best enterprise work experience I've ever had. I literally thank my lucky stars every day that I have my job.

Really continue to focus on the no-assholes policy. Even after six months of contracting, and now almost a year of full-time employment, I haven't met a single person who I thought was a jerk. It's something that makes GoDaddy extremely unique.

As we grow bigger and bigger, keeping that focus will be more and more difficult. I'd also say to keep bringing in leadership talent that have a strong focus on the future and staying at the cutting edge of technology.