[purple_ducks]

Since we're answering questions with questions...

> Slack is within the top 10% of companies in the Bay Area by pretty much any metric you choose to rank companies by

What are you basing that on?

I'd say a bloated chat app in no way portrays elite. What has come out of Slack that screams elite?

There's more to elite than just 'oh look it shiny'

[jayparth]

Whatever dude, I'm not going to argue with you here. The beginning of this article starts out by explaining what a stand up is. It's not written for tech workers it's a general piece. And just working at any large technology company puts you in a very small fraction of the population and the truth is a lot of people vy for these positions. If you work at Slack coming out of undergraduate, you'll be a top 1% earner for your age bracket. That is pretty "elite" by a normal person's standard.

My original point still stands. Realize you're living in a bubble if you think a normal person would not consider working at any "average" tech company like Atlassian, or Dropbox, elite. Let me guess, you work at a company that's """elite"""?