Company: IBM
Date: 2020-11-13
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current

Smaller companies working as part of IBM suffer
Pros: - Company offers a lot of benefits to its employees.
- Salary structure works well if you can position yourself in the appropriate band.
Cons: - Small companies absorbed suffer tremendously from merging with IBM and their strict regulations, policies, and required training/learning while still expected to maintain and deliver at the velocity of a start-up. Managers forced to lose their leadership positions because they don't have the required number of direct reports to warrant it in IBM's eyes.
- Poor leadership is put in position to lead absorbed companies with little understanding of the products / teams being worked. This leads to baseless layoffs of high quality talent and destroys morale of employees that remain.