Company: IBM
Date: 2019-01-29
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Don’t let the big name fool you.
Pros: New technology if you can find a way to get involved with it.
Cons: No motivators other than “be lucky to have a job”. 
No yearly pay increase. Once you’re hired in, getting a raise is next to impossible even for stellar work. You get great reviews but keep the same salary, year after year, so you’re in essence working for less money due to inflation and when cost of living goes up each year. I’ve been working for ibm for 10 years, hired in at 100k, gotten great reviews for doing more, growing my skill set, advancing IBMs client base and technical position, and in the 10 years, I’ve gotten a couple 1200$ profit sharing bonus and a 1% pay increase and one 2% pay increase.......in 10 years. So I’m in essence making about 17% less less than when I started. (My money doesn’t go as far as it did 10 years ago, doesn’t pay the same amount of bills). And manage always says “maybe next year” year after year, until burnout sets in, our careers have been damaged from the emotional and mental torture that working for a company like this does to you.