Microsoft

The culture, the energy, the teamwork. I've worked for many companies over my 20-year career. They all have buzzword-laden catchphrases to which they just pay lip service until the profit motive overrides them. MS is different. You feel it genuinely practices what it preaches because it realizes that sacrificing some pennies today to do the right thing pays dividends over the long term. And it all comes from the very top – this is how you do leadership by example.

Still relatively new to MS, so this may be unfair, but the technical career path/ladder isn't clear.

Keep doing what you're doing! All the way up the chain, every manager I've met has been fantastic.