Number One with a bullet!
The other day (or night? don't remember) Scott and I were discussing the movie "High Fidelity" over IM since I had just seen it for the first time. Since seeing the movie I've been walking around like a dork with OCD, compulsively asking co-workers their "top 5" this or their "top 5" that and using the phrase "with a bullet" enough to annoy them a little.
Since Scott was nice enough to incorporate this theme in his recent post I'm going to follow it up with some top 5 lists of my own. Oh, and if you've never seen High Fidelity - absolutely awesome movie about music and relationships and life. Go rent it. NetFlix it, whatever. (Is "NetFlix" a term now like "Googling" is or whatever? It should be.) Anyway, here goes:
Jason's Top 5 Companies to work for:
- Microsoft*
- Vertigo Software*
- Amazon.com
- 37Signals
* - I've interviewed w/ them before. Vertigo was actually more intimidating than Microsoft by a longshot, too.
Oh, and Scott - Electronic Arts? Dood, their rep is that they work you to the bone for poor pay and keep ridiculous product schedules that make most people leave after pushing out 1 or 2 games. No thanks.
Jason's Top 5 Project Types to work for:
- Developer Community Website (like DevCampus, duh.)
- Web-based product with an absolutely superb UI and DHTML - Something that uses slick web components from a place like ComponentArt or Telerik.
- Cool GTD-type app, Windows or Web, I wouldn't care.
- Something where performance is of uber-importance. (I like benchmark type challenges, I know, nerdy.)
- Full-time Tech Author (articles, books, etc. I love to write)
Jason's Top 5 Top 5 lists:
- Best places to work
- Best types of projects to work on
- Best Top 5 lists
- Best 5 songs ever
- Best 5 movies ever
<Hulk Hogan impression>What's YOUR top 5, Brother?!!</Hulk Hogan impression>