Company: IBM
Date: 2013-07-28
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former

Good workplace if you're a robot, really brilliant, or a cut-throat.
Pros: Smart people, good compensation (at least for information developers--aka, technical writers), great benefits.
Cons: All the pros I've written up make it sound good, huh? But I should have listened to my first instinct about the workplace there: I'd never felt like the people around me at work were so unhappy. But instead I stuck it out for more years than I care to share here. There were a few fantastic colleagues along the way, but unfortunately IBM promotes the people who will do anything to be top dogs. There are a few who are so smart they don't have to bend over for management. If you think you can end up being among the "top contributors" every year, then you might not need to fight for your job to escape the annual layoffs at IBM.