General Electric

Facilities in top condition. On-site gym. Phones, PCs, and office tools in top condition.

Inexperienced leaders, poor lab maintenance/management, and little/no exposure to high-tech projects. Projects are low in technical content (due to IP export control reasons), hence you end up doing the same stuff every year. Higher-level management consistently fails to recruit effective leaders. I had three different bosses in a span of a year. All were inexperienced, 'general management' types who did not have the necessary experience to develop a vision for what the team should be like. Compensation is lousy. HR will look for any excuse not to award the pay raises promised a year earlier. Avoid this place at all costs.

Hire managers/leaders who have experience doing what their subordinates do.