Company: IBM
Date: 2014-03-06
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

pegged with not alot of options
Pros: on the plus side, work/life balance is good. Being able to work from home has it's benefits for both employee and employer.  Most people on the same level as you are good to work with.
Pay is pretty good, but takes alot of years to achieve a decent salary.  Lots of varied roles to choose from.
Cons: company boasts about providing education time (40hrs), but they rarely focus on truly investing in your education and skills properly.  They have neglected education and skills for so long now, that they had to come up with the 40hrs, but staff need alot more. Building your skills is left to you to work out for yourself.  So because people are lacking tech skills sometimes in the products they work with, the customers ultimately are disadvantaged.  Management are constantly focused on metrics, and while that is required to a point, they take it too far.  No GDP payments in 2014, and unlikely to be any in 2015.  Staff cuts and offshoring just leaves more work for others to do. Staff cuts are damaging morale.  Management is losing faith with staff.  Not alot of people are happy.  2015 business plan is slowly destroying the company. Innovation comes from acquisitions, not much from within IBM.