Company: IBM
Date: 2012-06-04
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

IBM is taking cost cutting to an extreme
Pros: Lots of smart people.  Great technologies.  Plenty of opportunities to do a lot of different things in your career (though you need to be very motivated to do this).
Cons: From the inside, it feels like the company is going out of business.  Cost cutting is being taken to an extreme, from everything as simple as office supplies to something more complex like commissions.  Every team meeting was about finding new opportunities and closing business.  "Everybody sells" is the corporate mantra.  There's a stated goal to get EPS to $20 by 2015, doing so is going to hurt IBM (there are plenty of articles about this, just Google for it).  This is not your father's IBM, the company has changed significantly over the past several years.