Company: IBM
Date: 2014-10-05
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

The Business Equivalent of the Borg!
Pros: A large company does provide a level of stability.
Cons: IBM grow by identifying new innovations and then buying the smaller companies that made them. They're so large that they can continue to do this.

The biggest problem is that you end up with a few hundred emails every day, most of which are people NOT adding any useful information to a topic, but saying that they agree totally with the email, and how fantastic it is! This isn't the way to run projects; most IT firms I'd worked for previously (including Sun Microsystems) would only want you to "reply to all" in the event that you had some technical information that was relevant to the email, and NOT because you were trying to have your name made known to everybody.