Company: IBM
Date: 2012-09-04
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Confirmed

IBM is not the same company it once was... even just 5 years ago.
Pros: Smarter Planet & I'm an IBMer campaigns creates great identity and direction for employee focus and efforts.  The brand remains respectable, garnering a strong response from clients and Wall Street.  An overall professional sentiment is maintained with a multitude of talented and self-motivated individuals, many with extensive tenure.  There also seems to be a multitude of back-end systems and resources available to manage processes and track performance.
Cons: Challenges to meeting the looming 2015 plan communicated to Wall Street... Management constantly rotates through assignments, every 12-24 months, leaving individual contributors to continually re-establish their perceived contribution and reputations.  Lack of managerial awareness of employee contributions results in significant lack of developmental opportunities and promotions.  The availability of multiple back-end systems and resources available to manage processes and track performance is a two-edged sword.  Adoption and training on systems is not universal, resulting in inconsistent reporting not meeting raised expectations in terms of capability to analyze and understand the business.