The Home Depot

Work-life balance (for the most part)

Full of semi-skilled (or unskilled) contractors.

Business teams have no clarity of where they are heading; they implement and revert changes most of the time to keep themselves busy.

Engineering teams don't have a process. There are no schema definitions, no documents, no CI, and some don't follow unit testing. There is literally no design phase; discussions are frowned upon. Architects are mere losers here.

Politics is a must-do, else you will be a sucker.

On a scale of 1-10 in technology (10 being highest), if you consider yourself more than a 3, DO NOT JOIN. I have seen people leave within 1-5 months of joining. I am leaving in my 3rd month.

Collaboration does not mean sitting in meetings the whole day with no planning. Please realize the importance of the word "engineering" in IT. We need to discuss, plan, and then start implementing – not the other way.

Hire at least some good people in the engineering teams, or respect the ones you have before they leave. Experience is not the only criterion to decide who is good or not; you need to come up with some talent metrics.

I understand revenue is growing, but that does not mean your IT teams are great.