Ford

Great people to work with, personality-wise.

Good benefits.

Working remote can be a problem, with work often bleeding into your personal time. Dynamic and challenging business environment due to electric vehicles.

Layoffs are common. Every 2 years in the last 8 years, mostly older employees.

New college graduates have more opportunity to try different positions than established employees. It is easy to get stationed in one group with little opportunity to develop new skills. They will give you time to learn the skill but no practical opportunity to put your learning to use. Technology-wise, this is a career killer and why older employees get let go. They are not leaders in software development.

They rely heavily on outsourcing major development work, leaving in-house IT work to interface systems. Heavily reliant on consultant firms to direct major process and systems change. IT is often well-respected.

We need a much better way for IT workers to have an opportunity to change or rotate their positions. People do not want to jeopardize their jobs at the company by telling managers they need to be rotated because their present positions use stale technologies or are limited in growth potential.