Company: IBM
Date: 2017-04-05
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Mixed
Pros: The company encourages us to upgrade and keep our skills current through various means. Forty hours per year are mandated. The latest incentive is free unlimited access to Safari Books Online.
Cons: Promotions are very uneven, but then so are layoffs. Sometimes entire areas (advertised as strategic just days earlier) are cut and "resource-actioned" with no explanation, and everyone else is supposed to just carry on as though nothing happened. When this sort of thing occurs annually, it undermines one's confidence in local  or senior leadership and erodes morale, no matter how positive one is determined to be.