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My manager and (most of my) colleagues were professionals, and it was a pleasure to work with them.

Great benefits.

Good work-life balance. My manager was fine with me working from 6-8 at home and then from 9-4 at the office.

The physical environment was awful for software development.

The salary was not competitive, even when compared to those performing similar work in the company.

I received decent performance bonuses; however, I object to their distribution "on a curve", where managers essentially have to duke it out so their reports can get decent bonuses. This ingrains a belief that you can't have a team where multiple people are performing at "exceeds expectations"—which isn't true.

The millions of dollars spent constructing the new Draper facility will be dwarfed by the millions of dollars in lost productivity over the life of the building. You should have built in some quiet areas (offices) where people doing thought-work could concentrate.

I left for a 50% salary increase; I didn't feel I could accept eBay's offers to match it because I didn't feel I would be able to deliver 50% more in the environment I was asked to work.