Boeing

There's a good work/life balance. It's one of the few companies that still has a pension and a 401K. I've always been treated relentlessly fair by my direct management.

At least in the commercial airplane side of the business, they apparently don't write IT software anymore. Management seems to believe that Boeing functional analysts, Boeing project managers, and non-Boeing offshore developers is the path to quality applications, despite all evidence to the contrary. If I were a software developer starting out, I would never choose this as a destination. And, oh yeah, there's a near-constant threat of cutbacks and layoffs.

Get back to building things before we forget how, if it's not already too late. Start building things again and then start bringing in and training the next generation.