Microsoft

You get to work in the heart of the beast, a Washington legend, with a decent salary.

You are disposable and will be treated as such. Even though I was the person with the most experience in the technology we were using, my ideas were overshadowed, and larger projects had to be pushed off for deadlines. The turnover was also high, even within my team. We had people rotating in and out, with lots of input from different sources on progress/expectations. This led to something of a jumbled mess when it came to development.

Communicate with your contractors. I saw my manager 10 times total before my contract was terminated, and none of those were formal meetings between him and me. I wish that had played out differently.