Fidelity Investments

Great office facilities.

Good benefits.

A pro and a con: the office is empty at 5 PM, literally. Good if you've got kids, bad if you're a workaholic.

The company belongs to the Johnson family, so you don't have the "make the quarter numbers or bust" attitude you'll find at publicly traded firms.

Sparse vacation, only 15 days a year. The company is constricting; merit raises were half of inflation across the IT groups this year. Technologies used internally are well behind the leading edge and well behind peer institutions.

Dear Fidelity, you have internal incubators like FCAT. Use those new technologies across the board, like you did during the late 1990s when you brought out the first mobile-based trading applications.