Company: IBM
Date: 2014-08-18
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

Usually great in the beginning and not some much in the end
Pros: Good benefits, office life is rare as work from home is more common. Most of the real IBMers are simply  fantastic people to work with.
Cons: Wow, where to begin. L1-L2 management are largely nothing more than puppets. I actually had a manager say they made a decision based on a coin flip. That sounds funny at first, but it really isn't.
Work-life balance? What's that? I've missed numerous big family events for essentially nothing in return.
Personal work reviews are a joke. HR gives first line a manager a bucket of numbers to assign their employees regardless what the team is really worth. Very few get what they actually earn. Roadkill 2015 is a huge moral killer because of all the layoffs (actually mass unjustified firings is what they really are). Execs have finally gotten as corrupt as other big companies. Very sad what this great company is becoming. Watson is rolling over in his grave.