Comcast

If you are talented, you can actually make a difference. The company wants to, and is learning how to, be a tech business rather than a service company. They need strong technical leadership in order to achieve this, and they are willing to let you think outside the box and try new things to improve products and product QoS.

It's a highly political environment that values general management skills over technical acumen. This will have to change if the company wants to be a real tech company.

There is way too much middle management empire building, and it interferes with the ability of the engineering teams to deliver.

If you are top-notch, you will get frustrated, quit, and go to Silicon Valley or New York for double the money and half the politics. At least I did.

Get rid of any engineering or technical management that doesn't directly contribute to product delivery. If your frontline software engineering managers can't code, what value do they add?