Why are SaaS companies seen as more attractive to work for?

Question

I've seen on a lot of Who's hiring threads how companies say they have a SaaS product as a selling point, but for me it works like the opposite. As a FLOSS enthusiast, and excepting the very rare cases where the software offered as a service is fully open source, SaaS feels to me even worse than writing closed-source software.However, I have to say my experience in software engineering is mostly on SaaS companies, so perhaps I'm just seeing the grass greener at the other side of the fence. Is there any huge advantage of SaaS companies I'm missing?

Shinmon · Accepted Answer

You have seen that in hiring threads as a selling point? :ONot sure why this would be a selling point besides the plain information of what kind of product you'll be working on. The tech stack at SaaS companies is usually relatively modern, but more often than not the code base / system architecture is a clusterfuck that has been growing for years.