Siemens

Excellent work-life balance.

If you are lucky, a nice team, but it's a hit and miss.

If you need a bit of relaxation during the day, just go to a meeting.

Bureaucratic and lots of politics. A lot of innovative initiatives die due to pushback from management or unenthusiastic fellow colleagues. IBM and Microsoft lovers: only approved dev tools can be used. Poor hardware makes development a pain.

Let your engineer pick the best tool for the job, and not management-level people who never actually use the tools they procured for their engineers.

Your biggest cost saving is to make your workforce more productive and more passionate, not saving pennies on hardware.