Company: IBM
Date: 2018-01-01
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

Sad decline of a once great company
Pros: You can do anything at IBM - lots of room to move laterally.  You are given a lot of room to develop your skills and are mostly autonomous on your projects if you are a senior resource.  IBM brand is tarnishing but still impressive in the industry.  I loved working here and remember what it used to be.
Cons: One word - "co-location".  The death sentence for IBM US marketing and all high performers -- co-location drove out the best performers into the arms of competitors (myself included).  I still have contacts within IBM and am told executing any marketing tactic is virtually impossible.  Too much IP went out the door w/the best employees and the new collar newbies lack knowledge of the market and products.   All of my team left to go to competitors vs. co-locate to Austin, TX .  We were a successful remote team who worked with WW resources so moving to 1 location to "be together" is frankly absurd.