Solved: What are the signs of a good company to work for?

🚀 Executive Summary TL;DR: Engineers often prioritize tech stacks and perks over culture, leading to toxic workplaces. This guide provides a framework—interview reconnaissance, digital footprint analysis, and a 90-day litmus test—to identify critical green and red flags, ensuring a healthy engineering environment. 🎯 Key Takeaways A healthy engineering culture conducts blameless postmortems, focusing on systemic failures and implementing concrete process improvements (e.g., CODEOWNERS, mandatory approval steps in CI/CD pipelines) rather than assigning individual blame. Good companies actively manage technical debt with a clear plan, integrating its resolution alongside new feature development, rather than perpetually de-prioritizing it. Be wary of job descriptions demanding ‘expertise’ in a vast array of competing technologies for limited experience, as this often signals an immature, chaotic organization seeking an underpaid miracle worker. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, I’ve learned tha