SAP

Pay was lower than the industry standard (around 2019), but the benefits were great.

Awesome PTO, health benefits, and work-life balance were great.

I ended up switching industries and falling into another line of work, and I miss SAP constantly. Looking back, the benefits generally outweighed the cons.

The code was a mess. Communication between teams was a bit disorganized, but that’s a bit expected with companies so large.

Promotions were based on tenure and not how successful you were at your job.

Diversity wasn’t great. I won’t go into it more, but the dev team could afford to see a bit more variety with who they hire.

Don’t base a developer’s productivity on lines of code.

Offer clear paths to promotion and don’t just base it off of tenure.