Bank of America

• Good networking opportunities: You'll meet people throughout the company who are happy to help you.
• Mostly stable gig: They need smart, active people who can push hard enough to break through corporate red tape. If you can do that, you'll have the job for as long as you want it.
• Good pay for the work.

Corporate culture to the extreme. Lots of conference calls, lots of layers, lots of people who are just cashing a paycheck.

Depending on the role, the work can be very pigeonholed. Don't expect to learn new technology here.

It is hard to innovate here. Everyone wants to stay in their groove; so much so that the "innovators" at the company have typically been there for 10+ years, creating innovations that no one outside of the company is interested in.

You need to learn how to act like a technology company, even though you'll continue to be a financial services company.