Management favors favorites.
Favorites are those who are very outgoing.
New hires start at higher pay than those loyal for 5 even 10 years.
Dress code.
Outdated 4:3 monitors.
Pay for IT is at the bottom of the scale.
Executives make false promises and even lie to their associates, while boasting honesty as a core value.
Annual 1-2% raises are most common, some 3%. But the medical insurance they offer goes up that amount each year.
IT retention is at like -11% and increasing, forcing coworkers to work more overtime.
They dangle opportunities in front of you but never give you them.
If they do give you an opportunity they lied about what it was. For example two of my roles were promised to be 100% - 85% Java and ended up being 100% a different language, or 90% Cobol.
They will hire outside people only for Java instead of promoting Cobol developers.