General Motors

Largely depends on your manager. If you have a good one, this is a great place to work. If you get a terrible one in a terrible department, then well, it's hell.

The company is renovating a new campus in Austin, which will be very nice once complete.

Exceptional benefits:

• 16 holidays, 3 weeks' vacation year 1, 4 weeks at year 3
• 8% 401k for putting in 4%
• Healthcare is high deductible with HSA, but the company is very generous with its contribution.

Some teams are impossible to work with, and it's easier to just do their job rather than engage them. Unfortunately, sometimes you actually need them to do something, and well, there goes your project's timeline.

I've worked here almost 4 years, and there is a lot of dead weight that management won't put on performance improvement or fire.

Put people on performance improvement plans and start cleaning up the driftwood.