General Motors

It's easy. If you can solve FizzBuzz in under an hour, you're above average in technical skills.

If you've achieved all that you want to achieve and you're ready to simply kick back and cash salary checks, this is a great fit.

Thanks to a strong workers' union, there are a huge number of company holidays and paid vacation days.

I moved from GM to a top tech company in Seattle and ended up with /fewer/ paid vacation days. (Compensation rating still 2/5 due to rock-bottom salary).

Work/life balance is fantastic. GMIT rarely actually succeeds in launching software, so there's very little livesite work to do.

The job is a straight 40 hours per week, 99.5% of the time.

Unmarried employees will be gently informed that they're expected to work extra hours above the 40, seeing as their time is supposedly worth less than that of employees with families, but I ignored this over three years and two managers without retribution.

No opportunities for growth and development. If you can code worth a damn, you can't learn anything here.

No meritocracy. There's no Junior title in GMIT; you're officially a "New College Hire" instead, and that designation lasts for three years, irrespective of your performance. They're serious about it. After two and a half years of delivering as much work as any three seniors, I was still introduced to newcomers as "our New College Hire".

Company culture is extremely far-right. I've heard managers speak openly about how the US would be better off if someone were to nuke New York, or if California were to snap off and sink into the Pacific. The team would express disapprobation by leaving a box of tampons on the desk of anyone who'd get visibly upset or annoyed.

Give a damn about employees' careers. Choose the technologies you work with accordingly.