Company: IBM
Date: 2012-12-04
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

A great place to work if you drink the Kool-Aid and toe the line
Pros: All of the good reasons to work for IBM have been done away with over the last 5 years.
Cons: Managers don't stick up for their employees, decisions are based on what will make the stock price go up, rules for rules sake, seemingly unable to do the right thing.  Example:  Wall Street likes to see layoffs at big companies.  IBM will take highly experienced consultants who are invaluable to and well liked by their customer and bringing in upwards of $180/hour to IBM, and lay them off because they have to meet their layoff numbers to make the stock price go up.  I saw it happen year I worked there, and this year it happened to me.  And they are the global leader in off-shoring jobs.