Bloomberg LP

The company as a whole cares about its employees. Benefits are top-notch. Summer parties are the best, and the company has excellent core values.

Being a private company has a huge advantage, as the company can invest in its people through education and other perks that are rarely found elsewhere. They also promote volunteer work, being green, and focusing on your health.

Certain groups in the company can have a really bad working environment or a really awesome working environment. It is hit or miss, which tends to depend on who is managing the group.

The company also works with really old technologies, which is not transferable to other companies.

The development environment, or lack of one, is really old and not efficient.

Replace middle management with real leaders who are transparent and have a vision. Most are only good at pushing people to get stuff done.

Sometimes they don't know what they are doing and treat people like "bodies" and not people.

Company culture has been changing from a small start-up feeling to more a corporate feeling.

Give programmers the tools they need to do their jobs most effectively, like giving them a third monitor.