Company: IBM
Date: 2019-07-23
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

Expect to be let go between 50 and 60 yrs old.
Pros: The managers I worked for were excellent.   Had a voice in proposed changes and improvements.
Built a personal brand over a 21 year career.
Cons: Agist.  Started recieving emails at age 55 asking " Have you considered IBM early retirement Plan" : never responded becaus I had no interest.
Three months before my 60th birthday got an email "Why haven't you chosen the IBM early retirement plan?"
There was a link were you could explain.
I clicked the link and explained that due to a divorce I could not financially afford to retire and I love my job and have no interest in leaving.
IBM layed me off 4 days after my 60th birthday.
When I went to a initial meeting with an outplacement agency that IBM had hired; sitting with 30 people I asked " Who is from IBM, and who has 15 or more years of service.  All but 2 hands went up and those two were from different employers.
I did not ask anyones age but based on physical appearance no one was under 50.
We all had to sign the "Will not sue" document to get one months severance pay"  I had 21 years there.