Company: IBM
Date: 2017-06-22
Overall rating: 5/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Best employer for LGBT+ employees
Pros: Being out at work as lesbian enabled me to experience helping launch an internal startup -- a business development team dedicated to the LGBT+ B2B market. My management also supported my 6-month assignment in India with my wife, accompanying me, even though homosexual activity is illegal in India; it said that it couldn't get me out of jail if I were jailed due to the country's laws, but that Pat & I could be fully out as a couple within IBM's four walls; we were and local management and colleagues all were lovely to and inclusive of us. My U.S. management also sponsored my Master's at Columbia while I worked full-time. All this while being able to mentor and be mentored by amazing LGBT+ colleagues and allies!
Cons: Join an investment bank, rather than IBM, if you want to be wildly wealthy, but you can earn a healthy living here.