Company: IBM
Date: 2014-05-16
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

Manager of technical professionals
Pros: Opportunity to work with smart people all over the world. Interesting problems to solve. Ability to change roles without changing companies. Generally pretty flexible with work schedule.
Cons: Myself and my whole team of experienced (high performing) professionals were fired in 2013. The company is on a short term EPS path; achieving numbers via cost-cutting, which causes a downward spiral to the whole business. The practices hurt innovation (contrary to goals in the press), because employees are obviously not valued, and constantly in fear of losing their jobs.