Remote-first and async companies
Lumen Drifter, the night-owl remote worker
Ghost, Buffer, Automattic, Zapier and 4 more
Answer 10 quick questions about how you like to work. You get a creature from our archive of working life, drawn just for your answers, and real companies that match it. Each company comes with a public source. It is for fun.
About two minutes. Nothing you answer is saved.
There is no single best company. There is the best one for how you work. Here are 57 companies sorted into eight work cultures, each with the public page that put it there.
Lumen Drifter, the night-owl remote worker
Ghost, Buffer, Automattic, Zapier and 4 more
Spiral Ascender, the fast-track climber
Alphabet, Amazon, Wells Fargo, Northrop Grumman and 6 more
Hearth Colony, the team player
Hilton, Cisco, American Express, NVIDIA and 5 more
Equilibrant, the work-life balancer
Doist, 37signals, Buffer, Netflix and 1 more
Perk Grazer, the benefits hunter
Adobe, HubSpot, Airbnb, Etsy and 3 more
Seedbearer, the mission seeker
Khan Academy, Wikimedia Foundation, Coursera, Allbirds and 5 more
Lattice Smith, the craftsperson
Grafana Labs, Supabase, Tailscale, Red Hat and 5 more
Polymorph, the many-hats builder
PostHog, Linear, Plausible Analytics, Raycast and 1 more
How does the quiz pick my company culture? Each of the 10 answers gives points to one or two of the eight work cultures. The culture with the highest share of its possible points wins. The last question only changes how your creature looks.
Where do the companies come from? Two public lists (the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For 2025 and LinkedIn Top Companies 2025) and the companies' own careers, benefits and about pages. Every company has a quote and a link, and the date we checked it.
Is this a rating of the companies? No. It is for fun. A company appears under a culture because a public page says something about how it works. It says nothing about any team or any job there, and none of the companies is connected to ApplyKoala.
Can I share my creature? Yes. Save the card as an image, or copy the link to your result: it opens your own specimen on the page for your culture.