Comment by j on "What perks would you recommend for new hires (software developers)?"

Hmm I would start with the working environment.

Free Coffee / mineral-water / Juice (vote for juices 1 a month)
Equipment of their choice (in a reasonable price range)
regular group activities like 1 breakfast a week (for the "grown ups" with children) and 1 getting drinks together a month, maybe based on your team a sport like soccer / basketball during the week)
obviously a shower which could enable them to drive to work with their bike.
a specific "extra" budget for all devs so they can pick "conferences" or "magazines" or something else.
fruits / nuts / snacks ....
regular code / team related activities and a lot of pair programming.
ask them what they would want to have and emphasis that they don't have to know it right now and can bring it up later-on.

well that's what I would care about :) but maybe that's to much. I've picked those up in several companies I worked in.

What? Free coffee and water is not even a question, is it?

@emilmoe in general, yes :D but I helped building several startups so i know everything involving money is a luxury :D coffee is the minimum :D even with an investor the money was flowing only into the company so i had to pay for everything on my own :) which is okay but it makes you look at things differently :) blabla.. gg sorry in the end you're right it's the minimum for a decent working place as a dev :D

Coming from a country where tap water is a drinkable resource, it would sound odd to say employes has to pay for it :p

@emilmoe i was thinkin of mineral water :D I'll edit that

I wish the shower thing was indeed obvious

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