Company: IBM
Date: 2014-05-29
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

Want to do research?  Go elsewhere !
Pros: Lots of freedom in your day-to-day activities, so if you have an appointment or family commitment you can attend.
Cons: No real research is done here.  Most projects are chosen by looking at what the competition is doing and how we could develop the same thing.  Since everyone needs to publish a paper and/or file a patent each year to just get an average rating, no long term or risky projects are ever done.  Therefore, only short term projects that provide incremental changes are chosen.