Company: IBM
Date: 2010-04-13
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former

I had a good run
Pros: - Flexibility of home-office, esp. for parents with young children.
- Opportunities to move around within the company.
- Great colleagues
Cons: - Quarterly RA (layoff) cycle
- After layoffs, the expectations that the rest of the team would pick up extra work with no thought to whether this fits the employees' existing responsibilities or skillset.
- Constant nickel and diming regarding expenses: doubling up in hotel rooms on work trips, approval for a flight for a project but not the hotel (I stayed at a former manager's house).  I even stopped submitting my home office expenses since my manager, and I would get notices if I submitted legit. items under the wrong category.  I just took the home office tax deduction instead.
- Work/Life balance, because of the home office, even on vacations, I was working to meet deadlines since this is what my management team also did
- WIth each year, my benefits package, esp. health changed.  After nearly 10 years I was paying 3X more per month than when I started, for less coverage and higher co-pays.