Intuit

Compensation was decent. Flex-time (though you'll pay for it nights & weekends).

Where do I start?

To begin with, management is not what you would consider "top calibre." I wonder if some of them even have degrees.

Regardless, the company makes most of its money from two or three cash-cow products, and they jealously guard these sacred cows. Understandable.

The problem is that the company really falls on its face encouraging and stimulating innovation. In fact, the company secretly sabotages efforts at innovation from within.

Furthermore, all that stifled creative energy gets turned inward into a really nasty political environment. It's one of those companies where every year, five or ten percent of its staff have to be jettisoned.

And if you don't know who this year's sacrificial lamb is -- then it's YOU.

Hire better managers. In fact, every manager should be required to re-interview for their job and should be screened by a panel of outside advisors because the bar is way too low and it's a little too "incestuous" around here.