Microsoft

• Pay
• Benfits
• Smart people
• Brand name
• Increasingly accepting of work-from-home

Developers have to re-interview (same process as external candidate, whiteboard problems and all) to move to a different team within the company.

Performance evaluation is a "What have you done for me today?" exercise that gets tiring to go through.

Re-orgs. Teams are always getting spliced, moved, merged, or axed. There is constant fear of losing one's job or landing in an undesirable role.

Make developers feel like their company wants to keep them and believes they have the talent to work on any team that has a position for their job title.

That's the way it is at other big companies like Facebook and Amazon.