Company: IBM
Date: 2013-09-05
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

terrible, I wish I never joined IBM while I had so many other opportunities
Pros: nothing to say, it is the worst you can get
Cons: everything: 
*25% less than average salary
*300 hours of UNPAID over time in 10 months
everymonth 1 weekend is oncall(which is never quite and you get calls at 4AM!) and another weekend is a mandatory 12 hours maintenance which means you have only two  real weekends!
*no actual training, you learn nothing here but just do the same stupid routine and they do not want you to learn anything new so you don't leave
* management threatens to fire you whenever you complain about the fact that same position is paid at least 30% higher elsewhere
* only top 1% of a huge team get salary raise every year, and those lucky ones get 2-4% salary raise!
* Management hire their friends and relative with no bloody experience or knowledge as team leads or senior positions with double your salary and the brave one who complained to HR was fired couple of weeks after (excuse= bad performance!!!!!)
*when you go on call , clients are around the world calling you , you have no backup, and you have to FREELY work for them for more than 19 freaking hours and management just replies yes this is part of your job
* you have to work on canadian holidays too cause it is not holiday elesewhere!!!

I am not sure how it is legal and how they can do it, but unfortunately whoever complained lost his/her job. If you can afford it please please stay away from these savages. They report huge huge revenues and profit increase quarterly yet fire 4000 professionals JUST TO SAVE MONEY> which means management can get higher salary. Our manager's manager has a college degree and 3 year experience and works around 20 hours a  week and has 6 weeks vacation,with salary of 250K+. why? because his best friend is a director! why his friend is a director? because his dad was a manager in IBM. The system is so corrupted and dirty. our team has lost 4 people out 10 , all of them left happily after finiding another job with 50% higher  salary with no crappy workload like this. I am praying everyday and looking around hoping to get the hell out of this god-damned evil corporation. STAY AWAY