General Motors

9-5 work culture, 3 weeks vacation plus 16 holidays, car discount. Level 8 (Sr. Leads, Managers) and above get a new company car every 6 months.

Mediocre health benefits, no perks, no coffee, lots of red tape. Bureaucracy blocks the simplest requests (getting a VM in a lab can take months!). Many managers are from AMD, Dell, and HP and seem to leave nothing but destruction in their wake.

What this means is that your manager, or even your director, cannot approve the simplest requests or really authorize any kind of expense, no matter how small. Forget about bringing in lunch for the team at crunch time unless you want to pay for it out of your own pocket. Need devices for mobile dev? Good luck with that!

Cut the red tape.

Provide managers and directors more budgetary discretion.

Policy of waiting 12 to 8+ months to qualify for a raise is ridiculous.

The lack of free coffee is like a dead canary in a coal mine! I don't even drink coffee!

Behavioral only interviews is a recipe for an organization full of fast-talking dimwits.