Apple

• Decent benefits and compensation for US-based engineers.
• That's it. That's why they get two stars instead of one.

• Most team members I've worked with don't take pride in their work.
• Directors and leaders often make decisions without consulting their teams, and then expect the team to execute on their commitments.
• Discourse is usually based on making other people happy instead of making the best engineering decision.
• Bugs, especially performance bugs, often go unfixed.
• Leadership often has no concept of how to test products well or what kind of talent to hire to make that possible.
• Most people only want to do the minimum amount of work to make their manager happy.
• Will underpay labor if they can get away with it, especially outside the US.

The biggest change that would improve Apple's performance would be to make a much larger effort to let engineers work collaboratively instead of skating around their security guidelines. Apple should stop being so obsessed with secret launches that don't even matter, because most of their features have already been implemented by competitors. I have literally spent 8 work months of this year on product security, and it's not even my job.