Comcast

Friendly and Professional Lax on dress code Generous with vacations Really nice perks Decent mix of independence in your work life and social events.

Not a competitive salary compensation. No upward mobility, unless you are in a clique. Forced to wear multiple hats for not much pay. Oftentimes, competent teams will have their work increased and their people taken away. Most engineers are not very motivated, nor do they have a good reason to be.

You all need to learn that a talented software engineer isn't like a warehouse worker. You can't just expect to burn and churn through them without it consequently affecting your products in a negative way. Hardly any talented engineer stays at the company, and the recruiters barely get good people. The idea that you somehow need to do extra unpaid projects or gigs beyond your job to get promoted is kind of laughable. The technology there is interesting, but you are really forcing the same engineers that created the cutting-edge tech to leave in a shortsighted way by giving them a bunch of extra work for no pay, then not promoting them. You really need a better culture of promoting from within. It's pretty telling that most of the engineering force is contractors and not FTEs.