Company: IBM
Date: 2016-09-20
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Too Big to Fail or to have to be honest.
Pros: Large company - Lots of potential opportunity if you leverage politics correctly.  The key is there are a LOT of politics in this organization.  IF you are in sales for instance the politics will help your solution get sold over a much better fit solution (right solution) simply because you have that relationship with the appropriate client executive in an account.
Cons: Large company - Too large.  Right Hand and Left Hand have no idea what each is doing - Lots of wallowing and floundering and reinvention of the wheel here.  Don't expect to make $ in Sales here as big blue is constantly changing your comp plan -even, and particularly mid term- to ensure you are not getting the full benefit of your hard work.  Recently I won a large deal and expected a sizable, mid 5 figures, commission payment based on the "IBM Commissions calculator" but ended up receiving just over 4 figures instead, because the plan was changed about 3/4 of the way through the quarter...Even executive level within sales has told me that IBM is making sure their sales people do not make too much money....Thats not a good sign.  More people on my team that know nothing about what they are selling that do...Knowledgable well experienced people (50ish in particular) being cut loose.  Then they(mgmt) wonders why they aren't hitting their numbers.  
--Benefits are VERY expensive - more than doubled from the cost before they acquired the small company I was with previously.  This also resulted in IBM apparently selectively deciding what will or will not be paid for in terms of pharmaceuticals.  Myself and my wife both had expensive prescriptions that big blue will not allowed to be covered under their best plan.  Last year the 401k match plan was changed to include a stipulation that you must complete the year or there is no match AT ALL, whether you leave on your own or they are downsizing or whatever the case is.  Many just downsized 15 DAYS short of the term will get NO MATCH.  IBM is the perfect example of corporate greed and lack of ethics.  Combine this with the fact that the right and left hands are clueless of each other and you would be nuts to work here unless you are starving.