IBM

Great pension.

Extra holidays can be gathered/bought (or, indeed, sold).

Some of the 'You' benefits, such as cars, compared nicely to civil service.

The IBM name still has an eyebrow-raising cachet.

Salary wasn't great.

Had to train clueless 'colleagues' who were brought in on a greater salary than I.

You need to play corporate email games to justify your yearly review score.

Too many layers of bureaucracy to getting anything actually done.

Some days were wasted just stuck in meetings instead of getting actual work done.

Corporate indoctrination.

Lotus Notes is still the corporate email client.

Value your software engineers!

While they don't bring in immediate cash flow like your sales people do, nor have the corporate rank of your management, they're the feet on the ground making the products you sell.