Company: IBM
Date: 2013-04-04
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

While a good learning experience, bad managerial decisions and poor morale are destroying what was once great.
Pros: Great to have in your CV
Good opportunity to learn as the portfolio of products is quite big
Easy access to education and certification trainings.
Good possibility to balance work/personal life.
Cons: No interest in keeping good people - inability to provide adequate tools and support, mindset of "go, there are many people waiting for your position"

Incompetent lower management - people who are not organized with no real leading background keep being appointed managers causing a lot of chaos and stress by not being able to handle the responsibility and organization of work.

IBM tools - for most applications that are already available, IBM has an alternative that is in most cases slower, more chaotic and much less user friendly, not offering the same functionality as the original. (there are exceptions of course)

Slow to react to problems and changes due to huge bureaucratic load.

Shift from customer-centric approach to bureaucratic process-centric approach, which impacts the morale of employees and shows a bad image.