5 Tips On How To Choose a Company To Work For

Today with many software organizations (and growing), its required to make a smart decision to choose the right organization to work for. The company is a platform where you can showcase your talent. So having the right platform is very essential. Different companies work on different domains. The domain is nothing but the area of work. For example, when we say 'engineering', it could be mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, software engineering etc. Under software engineering itself there are various areas such as telecom domain, banking domain etc. The companies are broadly categorized into product companies and services companies. And there is clear difference between a product and a services company. In this short article, I'm going to write a little on how choose a company that matches your competency.

1.      The Company's Reputation : Its important to see the companies track record and past performance. The consistency in delivering the best products or services to the customers and winning more investors is essential for a good performing company. The company's reputation talks about company's sustainably during tough times.

2.      Size of the company: The company headcount should not, according to me, matter. However people have opinion that the smaller is the company the better it is for employees. May be because employees get more attention by the management. In my opinion this is not really true. The bigger companies have several divisions and each division is a line of business. Usually the employee of one business needs to bother or need to know about the other. Different business may operate independent of each other.

3.      Companies Working on Technologies of your interest: This is an important aspect to consider while choosing a company. There are several technologies and businesses today. It’s essential to understand kind of the technologies that the company deals with. It so happens in Services Companies that the technologies used may change very often and they do not stick with a single technology; because the business is driven by the customer demand. Its recommended to stick to single technology to master it completely for quite a time before you want to learn a new one. Though people say that an employee should be able to adopt new technology in less time, but employee will not be expert in a particular technology.

4.      Company Work Culture: Its not only about just the work and but its about having fun and enjoying the work. Look for what work culture the company has that best suites your interest. It could be about flexible working hours, employee benefits, about the career paths or about employee welfare. Find out if your friends/relatives are already working in the company and get the real good feedback on the work culture.

5.      Good Pay: Probably the most important criteria for choosing the company but it may not be the first criteria. Everyone works for money at the end of the day, so it does really matter and most of the times the good salary and good hikes are the best motivation factors for employees.

Its said wisely that "It is a biggest mistake to assume you are working for somebody else" and this is true. Company is just a platform provided for you. You are actually working for yourself, to meet your life needs. The job that you are doing does not interest you, then you will not continue with the job any more but always find a better platform (company) for you to perform and grow yourself personally and professionally.