PayPal

The pay was pretty great for a starting developer, also stock options.

Everything else was absolutely terrible. Cliques form, and if you're not in the clique, then during "calibration" month, expect to be dinged for the most asinine things. I watched two people get fired because they were in the lounge and were five minutes late to a meeting – a meeting even the manager came into late because he was in the lounge. And that's how he knew those two people were there. Yeah. The entire establishment is "rules for thee, not for me."

I got out as soon as I saw what was going on to my coworkers and never looked back. Read up on stacked ranking and calibrations. PayPal very aggressively pits its own employees against each other, and the managers sit back and joke about it. They think it's funny, a game.

You advertise all these comfy things in the building like massage rooms, lounges, beer on tap, and scotch in the cabinets, telling people to relax and enjoy.

Yet you fired people for literally using those same amenities to lure them in.

Also, your environment is one of the most hostile environments in all of software.

If you interview here, definitely ask about "calibration" month.