Intel

Some of the smartest and most driven people you will ever work with, at the IC level. Quite good total compensation.

Lots of top-down direction from highest management leads to indecision and micromanagement from "leaders." They can't do their job, so they try to do yours.

Dirty/disgusting facilities: At my campus, they stopped cleaning. Spills stay for days to weeks; there are pools of urine and scattered toilet paper in the bathrooms, and dust bunnies (size of bunnies) in the stairwells.

High-level management is interfering in the former meritocracy around promotions. I had my highest performers held back and my lowest performers coddled due to direct intervention by senior management. The high performers were held back by rules that changed every review cycle; the low performers had personal (ethnic) connections with senior leadership. This caused inversions in pay/grade versus actual contribution and impact. The "this guy is friends with the VP, so he doesn't have to perform" was not supposed to happen at Intel... oh well.

Current model is to take advantage of the driven personalities of Intel engineers by loading more work on them until they break.

Restore meritocracy, enable your leaders, and return to data-driven decision-making.