Company: IBM
Date: 2017-06-23
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Emphatic YES to IBM as LGBT employer with top honors!
Pros: Being an LGBT employee is something that you can rely on the backing of colleagues and the company's leadership at IBM. There truly are things we do that make this a top notch company to work for as an LGBT employee. As we focus this year on getting people to be more visibly allies to us all, we see more and more focus on building relationships with our colleagues based more on understanding and less blind acceptance so it feels more "legit" to me to know that people know how to be a good ally and they still want to do it... meaning they have an interest in what's going on in my life and not just that they don't care about what goes on in my life. I have had colleagues talk to me about "how does it make you feel when..." especially now with all the divisiveness perpetrated in my home state... that makes me feel good about my choice of employer.
Cons: Sometimes it can be difficult when IBM goes through points in time when it searches for it's changing place in the world... but I know all companies who grow to a certain size and are around for a long time go through it... it doesn't mean it's not tough some times to feel stress or feel all the things that go along with these changes, but it's certainly at the same time something that makes you evaluate your choices differently.