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What to care about in a job

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In 2014, I wrote about how I chose my first job out of college. I’ve learned a lot in the 4 years since then—here’s how I would change my criteria if I were picking a job today.

Someone recently asked me if I had any updates on my 2014 post on job hunting . I haven't done a systematic job search since writing that post (I decided to join Wave without considering any other offers at the same time), but I did learn more about what matters to me in a job. If I were doing another job search, here's how I'd update the criteria and ranking from the "Filtering" section of that post: Contents 1. Growth When I joined Wave, I thought I'd mostly work on adding new countries to our mobile app for international remittances. Instead, I rewrote our core transaction processing code (

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