Company: IBM
Date: 2018-07-20
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

IBM Sales and Technical Sales - Great people, Challenging company
Pros: Great people, large network of smart professionals across sales, marketing, product, development labs, services.  Great customers that respect IBM's historical business stature,
Cons: - Used to be a a company where you could re-invent yourself, switch jobs and develop yourself into completely new careers, across divisions and in new roles
- Benefits program has become less attractive and less generous over time
- Layoffs are pervasive and really mostly based on being in the wrong place at the wrong time, with many outstanding individuals layed off with 1 month severance regardless of years served
- Great, truly awesome people leaving on their own terms because job security and cultural toxicity has exceeded acceptable levels
- Product line has been mis-managed and is no longer competitive, with rare exceptions in some parts of Systems, Security, Watson, Analytics, Hybrid-cloud and Process Automation portfolios.
- While immediate team members and in many cases immediate managers are great, truly top-notch professionals, there is so much outside of our control and outside of our 1st/2nd line managers' control, that the culture feels toxic in many ways
- Used to be a great place to work and cultivate a career.  Used to have job security.  Use to be a place worth recruiting great people into.  This is no longer the case.
- Even if IBM is able to return to sustainable profitability and growth, the IBM professional family culture that was a big reason to stay has been lost, most likely forever.
- Even if your management and executive chain believes in you, your client loves you, you have a stellar reputation and strong consistent results, no one is safe from an unexpected layoff.