Company: IBM
Date: 2013-01-31
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Fantastic people, but changing mentality
Pros: I worked at the Almaden research center and in the Yorktown research center
Great research with state-of-the-art equipment.
Very knowledgeable people, who are also friendly and reliable
Still good core values of the IBM company, with people doing their whole 40-year career at IBM
Personnel encouraged to patent, publish and go to conferences
Internal recognition through awards
Cons: Compensation below microelectronics industry average 
Hard to obtain information on the technology orientation for future processor generations
Company starts to rely too heavily on process improvement rather than disruptive innovation
Excessive bureaucracy
Recurrent budget restrictions even though IBM Research is highly profitable