Company: IBM
Date: 2013-03-28
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

If you are in the US, do NOT consider working for IBM
Pros: Travel.  Working from home (depending on what group you are hired on with).  This is my second review for the same company (did one about a year ago).
Cons: I have never worked at a company that has so little respect for their employees.  Nothing you do is ever enough and as an IT person, we are held accountable to meet expectations from the business, who changes their requirements daily, with no change control and no pushback from IT leadership.  I haven't spoken to the person who I am told is my manager in over 4 months (until I recently Sametimed him to let him know that I cannot work 24 hours a day).  At IBM, you have managers on paper, but zero leadership or direction.  Any direction you receive is at the project level and not at an HR level.  You are just a tool, a soldier, and expected to work harder and harder, for less and less of a reward as the execs continue to line their pockets with bonuses for record profits (which do not trickle down in ANY way to US employees).  I'm sure the reviews are skewed higher by employees from other countries which IBM is heavily investing in.  In addition, you might see lots of jobs out there, so that it appears IBM is hiring.  This is NOT true.  They are trying to hire people in at lower salaries to do the same work, and will expect you to work from a "delivery center", so that they can lay off a loyal tenured employee who remembers how things used to be.  Before considering a job at IBM, search the web for IBM employee comments.  There are a few websites out there devoted to it, although I am not sure if I am allowed to list them here.