Company: IBM
Date: 2013-07-11
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Driven Company - Getting out of the hardware business
Pros: I have had the pleasure of working with some of the most intelligent people that I have ever worked with – true pioneers of the semiconductor art.  I have driven yields in the fab,  negotiated ground rules with the fab, drawn the circuit, drawn the mask set, measured the circuit in the lab, and seen the parts packaged and shipped to create a high profit for the company.  A wonderful experience that I believe cannot be achieved in todays myopic segregated work approach.
Cons: I have seen these phenomenally intelligent and driven people quit and get laid off by the scores in accordance with the 2015 roadmap.  The onset of “matrix management” and other fad management procedures cripple the innovative foundations of the microelectronics group.  IBM does not want to “produce” competitive microelectronics anymore.  They are focusing on software and services.  However, I believe that this is still a great company for software engineers, and project managers.  I would warn against IBM for electronic/chemical engineers (USA).