Company: IBM
Date: 2018-03-24
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Confirmed

Typical big company
Pros: Wide range of jobs to work in during your career. Recognized brand opens doors.
Cons: Fairly political old boy culture. Institutional ego: they've been doing things their way for so long they don't realize the rest of the world works differently. People who start their careers at IBM think it's normal until they move on and realize there's a whole spectrum of color in the world, not just drab blue. Management tries to compensate with lots of cheerleading and arm waving, but it's all words with no substance. After a 3 day "Jam", where all 400K employees were supposed to collaborate on values and purpose, the big epiphany was that customers come first.

In the absence of real revenue growth, management keeps cutting costs. It's the only place I've worked where you don't even get free coffee at the workplace.