IBM

The company won't be going away anytime soon. The company has cash, so when it decides to fund something, it has the ability to do so. The company tries to offer educational opportunities. The company has many locations. The company offers flexible work schedules.

Lack of respect for technical talent.

Continuous reductions in benefits.

Ever-increasing amount of uncompensated and unscheduled work.

Lack of control or input into technical and business decisions.

Continuous task switching for meaningless tasks.

Lack of communication from upper-level (executive) management about direction and feedback on local performance or local performance goals.

Find out what your products are, what they do, and what they don't.

Stop buying technology and start trying to retain talent.