Company: IBM
Date: 2012-07-14
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Confirmed

IBM Finance is a sweatshop, little pay, but good experience to gain
Pros: Oppt to move around various business unit
Flexible working hours / or once a week work from home option
Cons: Heavy workload
Too little pay (below industry average). 
Very aggressive environment
Not sensitive to work life balance.
expect you to work at night and over the weekend to finish things
Some line executive expect finance to respond to emails sent after work hours (eg 11pm) the next day morning (like as soon as you get in). 
Very snobby environment
CHEap as hell. No such thing as paid team lunch - every goes dutch 
Not even Christmas party or gifts
Bonus is a joke
Those who kiss ass with management moves up. Those really humble will be left behind
Oh - promotion does not mean more money here. It means more work for same money untill you proof yourself or until there's budget for increase (which at times can take more than 2 yrs).
Even then it comes with a measely 5% on already low salary.Factory production workers make more than an IBM finance analyst. 
All is all - horrible place to work - you're definitely under appreciated. 
If your mission is too quickly learn all that you can and get out of the place before life becomes too miserable you're ok. Otherwise you'll join the "I'm miserable but not doing anything about it" CLUB.