Apple

You get to work alongside some of the smartest people around.

I love Apple products, and getting to work on the services to make them better and fuller was a great experience.

Good food in the café.

My manager was a hands-off kind of person and let me have plenty of personal leeway regarding how and when things were done.

• Internal politics really sucked, especially when Scott Forstall was around. It's gotten better recently (before I left).

• Pressure to get things done is sometimes intense.

• Shifting priorities all the time.

• You work on something for quite a while and it ends up on the cutting-room floor (too often!). See Politics.

• There's not a whole lot of career movement (or a mentality of changing jobs frequently).