Two Sigma

Solid pay for the industry. Some other competitors pay more, but usually at the cost of WLB, and TS pays well into the 'diminishing returns' range anyway.

Extremely flexible hours, along with limited working from home or remote.

Great work-life balance.

Will reimburse conferences, tuition, and textbooks. It also has great internal trainings and seminars. This goes hand-in-hand with flexible hours.

On-site snacks, including fresh fruit and vegetables.

The name is super great for the resume, and on many teams, the challenges and learning are hard to find elsewhere.

Politics and bureaucracy are the name of the game. Sucking up, checking off checkboxes for the sake of it, and Potemkin villages are where most effort goes.

"Not-my-problem" politics lead to internal issues festering way longer than they should because managers flee from responsibility and employee initiative isn't taken seriously.

Micromanagement abounds, with little independence for employees, and a lot of talent is squandered because of this.

Listen to people with boots on the ground and give them actual independence. Some of your businesses could be so much more if management just listened to the people who actually knew what they were doing. All the ingredients are there.

Lay off the politics and bureaucracy. Reward financial and engineering success instead of checkboxes checked off, or as was suggested at a recent presentation, "number of Jiras closed."

Dump the promotion committees, or at least allow employee managers to be more actively involved instead of having a totally faceless group make a decision.