IBM

Flexible time Working from home Market rate salaries Usually, managers listen to you (even though they don’t have any power to do anything).

Usually old technologies (also bad code written in the end '80). Often old processes (they call Scrum what is in reality the old Waterfall methodology). Old tools (ClearCase, RTC, legacy tools that usually don't work properly). Too much bureaucracy. Canteen of bad quality and too expensive. Basically, apart from your base salary and your pension scheme, nothing is offered (no bonus, no stock, no salary increase, no dinners, etc.). A lot of teams too dependent on the US.

Try to get some independence from the US.

Make the teams more Agile (try to fully apply the Agile methodologies, not just put new names on old methodologies).

Try to modernize tools and systems (GIT and Mercurial in place of Clearcase, and try to use more open-source software).