Company: IBM
Date: 2014-07-29
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

too much processes and reviews that doesn't make sense and tie up your time
Pros: Good company to have your CV. 
Good training program aka GSS 
Possibly good leverage from team members if your customers are one of the key accounts in IBM.
Cons: Work Culture:
- Spent a lot of time in processes. After one red tape, comes another red tape, and then another. Nothing much ever gets done because after all the processes, the competition is already ahead of us. So many times that I've started earlier than my competition, but ended up my competition is earlier to give them a proposal and have went into a price negotiation with the customers.
- Management comes up with so many ideas, and expects  you to comply with no regards to the processes
They also expect to do more with less
- Work creeps into your personal life, in the night, during the weekends and holidays

Work Tools
- Office automation is whole lot worst...first day, they throw you the laptop and expect you to do most of the configuration of your access accounts
- IT support is basically "Its your own problem' 
- Does not invest in work tools. You gotta live with the most remote tools in the world, such as Lotus Notes and Symphony. They'd tell you that its the most powerful tool in the world, but you gotta self-learn. 14 mths of using Notes mail, I would swear that this is the one thing that makes me want to leave this company

Benefits
- Benefits are outdated: Transport allowance is 30-40% than major vendors in the market, health is only partially subsidized. Dental subsidy is pathetic