IBM

If you are a beginner, it's a good place to start.

A lot of teams [go] where to move and to learn things.

Huge community and internal support if you are proactive yourself.

If you are a senior engineer in your first year, you will lose time by doing monkey jobs.

This is a place where you will find many managers who are in their comfort zone and do nothing. They don't care much about your effort.

This is a place where you will find stupid architects because they became formal architects due to an internal ITA certification program. In reality, they are low-level engineers.

Eighty to ninety percent of managers were previously losers in the technical area. I was there for 8 years, growing from a 2nd level to Architect/SME level, and most technical people who were weak engineers became managers. They were the same way bad managers as they were bad engineers: no leadership quality, mostly ego, and an effort to keep their comfort zone.

I have colleagues who opened their own companies because they didn't get support at IBM to make some innovation. There were plenty of them in history as well.

Don't ruin the company and other people's lives because of your comfort zone sickness.

If you step into the manager line career, then be a leader, please.

Decrease formal certification (which is just for your complacency) and bureaucracy.