General Motors

Great vacation, 401K matching, and bonus.

I joined as a college hire, and they teach you everything on the job. While still behind the tech industry, GM is developing competitive, cloud-centric IT platforms.

There is a lot of opportunity to learn the work that adjacent roles do and pick up skills outside your immediate function. It is almost impossible to get fired.

If you are still developing your IT skills, this is an ideal first job.

Lack of senior talent. I heard Randy Mott (CIO) directly say that GM will continue to prioritize recruiting new hires from college over retaining mid-level employees. After three years of being a college hire, you become a "real" low-level employee that gets a senior dev workload with junior dev pay and little or no mentorship. Your annual performance rating is based on a behind-closed-doors ranking of all employees of the same level. Manager favorites get raises and better bonuses. Management is cliqued-up based on their previous employers. The key to success in GMIT is getting in the right club.

I enjoyed that in a tough social climate, (while they didn't always hit the nail on the head) upper management tried to do the right thing and make change in the company. Keep doing that.