PayPal

1. Good salary
2. Good perks
3. Free time (Not for my team, for the rest of Paypal)

1. Many products have such implementations that you can't even think a perfectly sane mind would design them. So if you are sane enough (have common sense), you would not understand it unless you are explicitly told so.

2. People have devised acronyms for almost anything. So don't be alarmed if you find someone saying, "XYZ should have been designed as ABC unlike BOS. It would have increased SPT." Too many acronyms in one sentence, eh? But you should read an internal email. People will behave like this is some general knowledge you should know.

3. For India, the primary location is Chennai. Although an office was started recently in Bangalore, most of the work is still done in Chennai. For a guy from the northern part of India, I find it very difficult to live here.

4. Lack of techies: I had expected that there would be an abundance of geeky people here, as it's a tech company. But I was hugely disappointed. Being a techie myself, I don't find anyone interested enough to discuss something technical.

5. Lack of concern for employees: I have to be on on-call support every alternate weekend. For those weekends, I can't plan any trips. I have to even carry my laptop even when I want to go to movies. This was fine if this happened once in a while. But every alternate weekend? WTF. So I started to stop caring for my work and live my life peacefully (read, being irresponsible). Please note here that this situation could not have come if they had hired enough people for the job!

6. Mostly unmotivated workforce: The average age of the company must be over 30. With numbers so skewed towards middle-aged people, you can't expect much enthusiasm. People come and go like government offices.

7. Too many meetings: Really? Did you need a meeting to decide how many meetings should there be per week? Can't it be discussed as one of the topics in one of those meetings? Who likes all these lengthy and boring meetings anyway? Well, you get the idea.

I can go on and on, but I'm stopping here to keep it short (oops! it's already long).

Don't hire college grads. They don't like your company!

If you do want to hire them, put them in places where their strengths will be used, not some random allocation you do right now based on the language you speak and people you know.

You can't expect a tailor to make jewels and a goldsmith to sew clothes. Put the right people in the right places.