Company: IBM
Date: 2013-04-18
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current

Buying EPS; not interested in thinking about employees
Pros: Can work on every technology and move about
Still has very sharp Distinguished engineers
Cons: -death by a thousand cuts. Pension got replaced by higher 401k which is now just matched once a year in lump sum
-every group pads sizings 2x. Management pads another 2x. Nothing ships even if you hit all your dates because test team needs 6-9 months to test
-bonus and raise has 0 correlation with what actual profits or what CEO says to shareholders about record profits in annual letter. In last 12 years have never seen a bonus higher than 6-8% even with 1 rating (top3-4% of performers)
-Orwellian double speak about everything. 
-even the restrooms are falling apart now. 
-supposed to be open door policy. But line managers hate it if you write to senior execs without going through them
- even a laptop refresh can take 5 years