
Stock and annual salary keep me financially healthy
The company mission and values need to reach down to contributors. There's a gap between what the executives espouse and what middle-managers actually do.
Work/life balance matched with good compensation has allowed me to invest in myself in other places in ways that other jobs have not allowed for in the past.
Old thinking permeates the company culture. The company needs to embrace agile values and team responsibility over leader responsibility. Going to production, for example, requires too many approvals.