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How to compare job offers

See the accompanying blog post: The spreadsheet I use to compare job offers

There's a blank template, and an example filled in template below. Or alternatively, here's direct link to a Google Sheet.

Blank template

Area of focus Place 1 Place 2 Notes
πŸ’°οΈ Salary 1    
πŸ₯ Support for volunteering   1  
πŸ‘₯ Culture 1    
🏠️ Working from home      
🧠️ Side projects      
πŸ’† Relaxed atmosphere      
πŸ‘ΆοΈ Maternity/paternity support      
⚑️ Interesting projects      
πŸ‘Œ Quality of code      
🍐 Peers      
🌍 Diversity      
πŸ“’ OSS + Evangelism      
πŸ“ˆ Career progression      
πŸ“ Technology architecture      
πŸ’€ Lack of politics      
πŸ’» Technologies      

Filled in template

Area of focus MoJ Imperial Notes
πŸ’°οΈ Salary 1 More than xx% increase with MoJ
πŸ₯ Support for volunteering 1 MoJ: 3 days paid + XX days unpaid. Imperial supports flexible hours, so would need to finish off my hours in the evening or weekend
πŸ‘₯ Culture 1 Imperial is prestigious and has stimulating work
🏠️ Working from home 1 Imperial said infrequently is ok. MoJ could be multiple days a week
🧠️ Side projects 1 Imperial support consulting + working with lots of interesting organisations. MoJ offer hackdays
πŸ’† Relaxed atmosphere 1 MoJ is a large department with opportunity to do things in a relaxed manner. Imperial is a smaller team, so the atmosphere may change during deadlines
πŸ‘ΆοΈ Maternity/paternity support 1 1 Both have good support in different ways
⚑️ Interesting projects 1 Lots of fascinating projects to work on at Imperial. MoJ develops prison software + court software which is also interesting. Imperial is more varied however
πŸ‘Œ Quality of code 1 Judging from respective GitHub projects, MoJ has an extremely high level of code quality along with tests. Imperial codebase has some room for improvement
🍐 Peers 1 Imperial team are a nice group of likeminded people. I don't know much about MoJ folk
🌍 Diversity 1 Imperial team is all guys. MoJ are much more diverse
πŸ“’ OSS + Evangelism 1 MoJ do blogging + OSS by default. Lots of writing to read online, documentation for their projects, retrospectives, interactive demos. Imperial have some open source code, couldn't find much blogging/written experiences. Both will support my conference speaking
πŸ“ˆ Career progression 1 More opportunity at Imperial. MoJ seems to only lead onto managerial roles
πŸ“ Technology architecture 1 MoJ have established tools for CI/Testing/Deployments/Rollbacks/Code Review/Debugging/Development/Collaboration. Imperial is smaller and appears to have less in place (based on GitHub)
πŸ’€ Lack of politics 1 Both have some, but Imperial better protects you from it
πŸ’» Technologies 1 Imperial use very interesting + modern tech. MoJ are starting to use modern tech, but also have some legacy code

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