Company: IBM
Date: 2008-11-03
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current

Cool but not so cool either
Pros: Following are the best reasons I think anyone should like IBM.
-Research in particular helps you innovate and also absorb your creative inputs. 
-Lot of highlight on work life balance (honest effort from the company)
-Very flexible work hours
My liking for IBM are mainly because of these additional reasons:
-I work in research and not too many companies have industrial research labs like of IBMs. They are unique for carrying academia quality research in industry
Cons: My points of dislikes
-not a good ladder in terms of professional growth. You are silo-ed in specific groups and very difficult to reach across. 
- you are evaluated on your bands and the process is too bureaucratic