Google

Interacting all the time with brilliant colleagues of high integrity and drive. There's a strong push to innovate and change the world. We have excellent compensation and benefits. There's high openness and plenty of communication from senior management about all kinds of company-strategy related issues, with lots of trust towards each and every employee.

Very hard to get promoted further from senior levels without world-shattering achievements, as there are few rungs on the career ladder. Not much recognition for the indispensable jobs of maintenance and keeping things running smoothly; only drastic, revolutionary innovation is truly recognized and amply rewarded. Too much love of risk-taking, too little budget control and financial discipline.

Drastically cut the continuous stream of money-wasting, distracting "bashes" and events at the Googleplex. More focus on recognizing, rewarding, and promoting the crucial work of "keeping the boat afloat", not just revolutionary innovation. Otherwise, of course, everybody only wants to work in the most "greenfield" areas, and indispensable "maintenance" jobs are shunned and hard to staff with the best engineers!