Company: IBM
Date: 2020-12-17
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Confirmed

Great place to work, but your mileage may vary
Pros: - Ability to work on exciting projects, with big clients, and some very new cool technology
- Lot of great, smart people to work with and learn from. Very rarely will you be the smartest person in the room, and that is great for a career in product management.
- IBM is B2B and big on integrity, you aren't going to have to do anything dubious, and there's a great permission structure and set of systems for maintaining that.
- You can move up diagonally and explore adjacent careers or roles. If you feel like you've hit diminishing returns in Product Management, you can get into Sales, Strategy, M&A, Partnership, Development, etc, if you work at it a bit.
Cons: - IBM is a big company, 300K+ employees world-wide. Parts of IBM are extremely well managed and up-to-date, with healthy cultures, others have awful outdated processes, terrible cultures, or management that lead through fear instead of intelligence. As a candidate, you need to scrutinize who you would be working for, the culture of the team, how it and you are measured. It is not worth working for a bad part of IBM.
- Diversity could be better. A lot of great improvement over the last few years, but more work required.