Company: IBM
Date: 2011-06-02
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former

Shiny facade, nearing the brink of collapse behind it
Pros: - Generally open-minded and supportive colleagues
- Breadth of tasks and topics to work on (if you can get in the right job)
- Still recognized well in the market
Cons: - Management quality and ethics have seriously eroded in the last nine years
- Company has lost its values
- Employees are given neither means nor education to do an excellent job
- Boasting in external communication, while paying only lip-service to quality and excellence internally
- Culture of fear and pressure - you have never done enough and it is implied that failure is your personal fault
- Lack of accountability for badly designed and negotiated contracts - instead pressure is put on delivery teams to "make it work", see also point above
- Performance does not pay, as compensation model does not allow rewards for good and top performers anymore
- Long-time top performers are severely underpaid compared to the market