Company: IBM
Date: 2016-02-13
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

The experience outweighs the negatives.
Pros: - Work life balance is great.  Hardly any trouble to your own hours, as long as you get your job done.
- Great program to train in corporate finance.
- Great coworkers and an awesome culture.
- Heterogeneous tasks, if you don't like what you do after 6 months you will be given new completely different tasks.  The world is your oyster.
- Executives will notice you for everything you do in certain divisions.  This can be your best friend but also your worst enemy.  The decision is completely yours.
- Work hard and complain close to nothing and you will be rewarded.  People notice.  Don't complain about the things we already know/are aware of.  Be a great team player and work hard.  This will get you the reward/-s you seek.
Cons: I can list several hunders of items that are wrong with working at IBM.  You can tell that the company is not flourishing any more because the spending per employee is horrendous. 

- Office equipment is amongst the worst I have heard of in corporate finance.  You will not get a monitor.  You will not get a KEYBOARD AND HAVE TO WORK WITHOUT THE 10-key, no joke.  You will not even get a mouse or a mousepad!  I am appalled that they expect you to be an efficient Financial Analyst on a 14 inch laptop without a 10-key.  The fact of the matter is that employees at other companies in the region laughs out loud when they hear it.  That is how bad it it.
- Old filthy offices.  There are no words to describe the feeling you will have the first time you see your own office, chances are that it will be dirty and have a funky smell.  However, you get used to it after a week or two.
- The company decides to spend $350 on a health incentive to give you an Apple Watch but doe not fun proper office equipment?  That itself is ridiculous.
- Remember the old school CRT/backlight fat TVs?  Not?  Well at IBM you will get to know these old artifacts of the 20th century again.
- Phones from the 1980s.
- Office chairs from the 1990s.
- Dirty work environment in general.
- NO filtered water on site in Rochester, which also is ridiculous since the quality of water in the city of Rochester is bad (almost as bad as Flint, MI - if you read this later than 2016, google it.)
- One microwave in break room/cafeteria?  There are thousands of people working at the site!
- Low pay!  Just as many before me has pointed out, you will be paid significantly less than same job at a major company anywhere else in the state of Minnesota.  Get your experience in and switch to a major company in Minneapolis or St. Paul and receive 20% to 50% higher salary for the same assignments.

It's Rochester, MN.  You will be bored out of your mind sometimes.