Dell

People are nice, and the direction is what Dell Group is heading for.

Product is good, developed from scratch, and you will get access to a lot of CS Fundamentals instead of APIs from some existing Frameworks.

You also get exposed to possible patent applications.

The office is good, with a very bright view!

Managers are not necessarily aware of hands-on technical stuff, and they put a high bar on candidates. Once hired, they trust you, so it feels good to work with top talent and people's trust.

They put emphasis on work-life balance and encourage continuous self-development.

Compensation is on average, based on the market.

No company reimbursed lunch.

Once a negative person somehow gets on the team, that would be the beginning of the trouble.

Top talents like showing off their skills and rushing progress. They use some tricks to push code efficiency without documenting it. So be prepared that you are facing convoluted legacy code, part of which is totally beyond you and nobody else on the team understands that part because the original author left the team.

More frequent performance reviews with possible promotion. Top talents like to see that their hard work and innovation gets recognized and rewarded.

More frequent 1-on-1 sync-ups, and get involved in team meetings deeper.