Company: IBM
Date: 2008-07-30
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current

Good company starting out from college, not sure about long term
Pros: I feel the company is pretty good with the work life balance.  Because the company is very advance some are even allowed to work remotely.  As an engineer supporting the manufacturing line you could essentially do a good portion of your job from home.  The company also provides good benefits at least compared to the other companies I have looked at which is really only two other companies.  They also have other little perks like different corporate discounts and rewards for great achievements (eventhough I hear they are not as good as they used to be).  I did enjoy most of the people are work with.  There are a good number of helpful people with in the company
Cons: It seems there is a lot of backwards thinking in IBM and not just within some divisions.  It seems to be company wide.  It seems like changes always loop back around someone.  The high level managers think they have an understanding of what happens at the lowest level but don't.  There always seems to be a different panic attack each day so it can get stressful at times.  Pick your day and you have some serious issue going on.  The meetings are endless and often pointless.  The meetings always make it seems like it's deja vu.  There is more time spent talking about the problem than actually going to correct it.