Company: IBM
Date: 2017-05-22
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

No longer an industry leader for employees
Pros: For some people may  provide opportunities to pursue interesting and important technology trends.  However, years of a strategy that weakens its delivery capabilities may mean that while IBM could be a good place to try out, it eventually may not be able to support longer term career goals.
Cons: Currently perception may look better than the reality.  Frequent reorganizations, intensive employee churn and unstable strategy and tactics means the dust never settles enough to effectively operationalize the ideas.   This leaves the organization confused, off balance, and struggling with day to day survival down to the individual employee level, instead of successfully delivering solutions.  Sellers drink the coolaid about new capabilities, but a limited ability to actually deliver leaves the rest of the organization in cleanup mode for promises that cannot consistently be kept.   Excitement with great ambitions gives way to disillusioned reality when things move from slides and PoCs to attempts at more complete solutions.   Lesson: stay on the solution sales side, and away from solution delivery.