Identity management is hard, and Auth0 aims to make that easier for developers. They're an international team with a lofty mission and one seriously prolific open source portfolio.
Employees: ~796
Featured perk: Top-of-the-line gear
Automattic is the maker of Wordpress and is led by Matt Mullenweg. “Automatticians” are spread out over 50 countries and communicate entirely on WP blogs and Slack. No email.
Employees: ~3680
Featured perk: Paid sabbatical every 5 years
Balsamiq aims to rid the world of bad software, starting with its powerful wireframing tools. CEO Peldi Guilizzoni is transparent about company metrics and speaks prolifically.
Employees: ~41
Featured perk: Generous profit sharing
Baremetrics makes beautiful analytics software for Stripe and other platforms. Founder Josh Pigford speaks regularly about his journey and evangelizes transparency with fervor.
Employees: ~14
Featured perk: “Remote stipend” for anything
Basecamp wrote the book on this remote stuff – literally. Jason Fried, CEO, penned Remote: Office Not Required in 2013 and created the We Work Remotely job board. Top notch stuff.
Employees: ~118
Featured perk: 4-day summer work week
Customer.io makes a powerful behavioral messaging platform used by over 1700 happy customers. Empathy, transparency and responsibility are the core values.
Employees: ~170
Featured perk: Minimum vacation requirement
GitHub is home to over 50 million open source software projects. “Hubbers” are encouraged to be autonomous, practice diversity, and invest in personal health. Over half work remotely.
Employees: ~4098
Featured perk: Amazon gift card for books
GitLab is a repository manager with some key differences over its competitors. They have a thorough employee handbook, opinionated core values, and are happily remote-only.
Employees: ~1787 (and 40 pets)
Featured perk: Travel grants to visit colleagues
Help Scout produces clever help desk software and resources for over 10,000 customers. Team members collaborate across more than 30 cities and work hard to onboard newcomers.
Employees: ~182
Featured perk: Paid adoption leave
Founded by Clark Valberg in 2012, InVision is a versatile prototyping application beloved by designers at some of the biggest startups and corporations.
Employees: ~899
Featured perk: Unlimited Starbucks card
Founded by Sal Khan way back in 2005, Khan Academy combines the reach of YouTube and a lofty mission to deliver top quality education to anyone that seeks it.
Employees: ~872
Featured perk: Minimum vacation policy
Litmus makes impressive email marketing tools used by 250k customers, and hosts Litmus Live, an event for the email community. Over half the company is distributed.
Employees: ~195
Featured perk: 28 vacation days
MetaLab is a digital agency and venture firm building products for orgs like Slack, Coinbase and Amazon. Founder Andrew Wilkinson and team acquired Dribbble in 2017.
Employees: ~228
Featured perk: No set working hours
Olark makes powerful chat-based customer support software. They use high fives and a handful of thoughtful core values to keep their employees and 12,000+ customers happy.
Employees: ~28
Featured perk: Get paid to go on vacation
Stack Overflow, founded by Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood, is a premier knowledge base for programmers and much more. They're big on private offices (or no offices at all).
Employees: ~605
Featured perk: Best health insurance available
Unsplash is disrupting the sclerotic stock image space with its free, user-generated photography. Co-founder Mikael Cho writes often about startups and work culture.
Employees: ~127
Featured perk: Wellness reimbursement
Founded by Jimmy Wales in 2003, and helmed by Executive Director Katherine Maher, Wikimedia is the non-profit behind Wikipedia. They have a few guiding principles.
Employees: ~875
Featured perk: $1800 annual wellness stipend
YNAB (You Need a Budget) has been making budgeting software since the web 1.0 days. All employees work remote and rally around the company's opinionated cultural manifesto.
Employees: ~148
Featured perk: Bucket list support