IBM

The projects are intriguing and provide good opportunities to work with new technology and expand your technical skills.

Many company policies and rules are designed to avoid paying employees. This includes unethical practices such as laying off hundreds of workers 3 days before they would be eligible for the once-per-year 401k match.

Management is also more concerned with the question of "can the product do X?" without any concern for "can the product do X well?", which leads to stifling of innovation and a lack of ability to build a product you're actually proud of. The expectation before promotions is also that you fill the role before getting any compensation or title change for it.

Keep the client-centric focus, but recognize that employees are clients of the business. Rather than introducing more meaningless, "feel-good" reward programs that have meager rewards, actually reward people properly.