Microsoft

Depending on the team, you can be working on awesome products.

Also depending on the team, people are passionate about what they do.

Very smart and driven people, for the most part.

Testing is often not seen as a key contributor to products, more like monkeys just there to pound on the product after the fact (fwiw, this is not only at MSFT).

Some people just seem to be there for a paycheck (or a visa, maybe) and don't seem to really care about the product.

To the CEO: Make some major changes (e.g., cut divisions that are losing money) to get the stock price, and more importantly, public perception, of the company rebooted.

To mid-level management: Actually act on post-mortem notes and don't just throw them away. Actually put automation to use so that it saves time for functional testers and does not just become a separate product to maintain.