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

Big but vulnerable and no strategy worth the name
Pros: Knowledgeable people. Wonderful colleagues who wants to do what is right. Team level is cooperation is good.
Cons: The top brass has no strategy other than firing people to get their own mega bonuses for their own Earnings per Share 2015 road-map. Instead of firing people and investing in people and new products they are consumed by financial engineering and they don't see that the ship is sinking (or perhaps they are and just want to squeeze out the last pennies from the corpse). Everyone is consumed by fear that they might be the next layoff. All divisions are cut to the bone and mgmt still demands growth. There is a total disconnect between top management and the people below on why sales are not working. The reason why sales aren't working is the fact the poor sales and pre-sales people are having 10 layers of management trying control every move with red tape while competition is fast and nimble. IBM is its own worst enemy at the moment.