Company: IBM
Date: 2019-10-10
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

mixed bag
Pros: -- always pushing into new technologies
-- many opportunities to learn the latest tech
-- some brilliant people from which to learn
-- opportunities to patent
-- opportunities to lead
-- no more stack ranking (but what took its place?)
-- you get a nice laptop
Cons: -- a strong tendency to chase shiny new concepts (e.g. the recent shift to moving people back into open concept offices because Spotify)
-- a strong tendency to prune the work force regularly (e.g. the recent spate of jobs moving from city to city to force attrition)
-- shofts products into maintenance mode before it is any good (because shiny new tech needs people)
-- too many weak teams, but since company is siloed it is never fixed
-- no detectable loyalty to  long term employees
-- few opportunities to mix with peers (opposite of the early aughts)
-- almost impossible to get funding for attending a conference
-- aggressively moves jobs to countries with low labour costs