Bloomberg LP

Deadlines don't really exist. Nobody ever gets fired. Overall, good colleagues. The company basically prints money.

Opaque compensation model. No IC career of any sorts; if you want to progress, you have to climb up management.

The most important part of your job is, however, to impress product managers, who are not technical. Work direction changes very often at the whim of product managers, who are for the most part not technical.

Code base is old, like 20 solid years old, but PMs are only interested in new features. There is a culture of not checking user reactions to changes and measuring performance; the only thing that matters is to push out new features quickly.

Code is structured around teams and not the other way around, so if two teams need similar things, they'll often build two slightly different copies of the same thing.

Gave IC some progression path.