IBM

1. Meet research gurus and many famous geniuses.
2. Steady, stable work environment; not terribly high pressure.
3. Have lots of time to learn new things and experiment.
4. Excellent support and incentives for patent development.
5. Many tech talks and outside visitor talks of great interest.

1. Can sometimes feel cloistered, especially since said geniuses are usually not social wizards.
2. Salary/title growth is very slow.
3. Very miserly, with essentially a nonexistent bonus program.
4. Highly bureaucratic – almost like government.

Continue to push programs that get the nerds together, because lord knows they need all the help they can get. Collaborative chess meets, hackathons, contests, parties -- we need more of that!

Also, reward your workers better. It is ridiculous how cheap management is about doling out bonuses, considering the profound and world-changing work the researchers do.