IBM

• Excellent teammates, both skills and personalities
• Benefits
• Discounts

Massive layoffs globally/Bad financial state. Low salary compared to market. No raises/bonuses. Terrible management that has no idea what they are doing, even in Watson groups. Always 3 layers of technical issues to resolve before you can get to doing work. Flexible scheduling/Work from home is disappearing. Schedules deliverables without technical knowledge and before every speaking to technical staff. Strict waterfall environment. Getting anything accomplished goes really slow because of sheer amount of bureaucracy. No path defined for career advancement of technical staff. Insular communities and blocking managers make networking difficult.

Stop believing that someone has accomplished something when there is no tangible proof they even participated in the accomplishment.

Listen to your technical staff; most of them know best practices.

Pay your technical staff market rate.

Stop thinking about Watson as a silver bullet when you cannot even implement it internally due to security issues.

Start offering the same working environment other technical companies do: REAL Agile (XP or LEAN), top-notch equipment, cloud computing that doesn't cost 4x the market rate, and reduced bureaucracy to get anything implemented.

Keep flexible schedules and the work-from-home option (for financial savings).

Stop trying to market BS internally to employees about how great things are when they are actually terrible financially, technically, and culturally.