Job offers that list "high speed internet and a laptop" as employement benefits realy piss me off. Do they think other companies force you to code on paper and send it trough mail?

Well "laptop" could be worth mentioning. I know several companies that decided for stationary PCs, so their employees have to come physically to the office instead of working from home.

@Picard sometimes they list that as well, like it's a great plus that they give you tools to work at work

A former employer didn't even bother to buy licenses for IDEs... guess notepad++ was sufficient in his understanding 😄

I lol'ed

@Picard

I list "pick your own hardware, OS & tools" as a benefit when recruiting teams. We assign personal budgets.

Then we discuss whether the dev's picks are suitable for project requirements, but if someone can convince me that a raspberry pi cluster connected to 2 projectors with a wiimote and a bathtube filled with foam peanuts for a chair will make them super productive... I won't judge.

But seriously, tell a dev they should probably pick at least one extra monitor, a good keyboard and mouse, proper closed headphones, and maybe a really nice chair — the few grand you spend on hardware and a welcome goodie kit more than offsets the cost of having to pay 20-30k in recruitment costs if your turnover stays too high.

And that is totally fine and (from my POV) a very nice policy. But I also had a former employer who provided a 2k+ worth Dell Laptop (with no admin privileges, you even had to call the admin to install a font file :D), and then a mouse and keyboard with 5 eur in total worth, which guaranteed to give you tendonitis.

@Picard I can't help but notice the "former" 😂

Which was my point: Make your devs feel at home, because replacing people is more expensive than buying them good tools.

Actually some companies are not so lucky about the internet. Our company is located in one the few buildings in Paris that have a really shitty internet connection. Pushing stuff to the cloud takes forever. For example when I build my Zeppelin docker image from our network, it takes more than 3 hours.
I'm definitely going to test the internet connection before I accept my next job