Company: IBM
Date: 2018-06-11
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current

sinking ship
Pros: Still has a good reputation, not a bad place to spend 2-3 years early in one's career for resume padding, but plan and execute your exit strategy accordingly.
Cons: A sinking ship, your salary will quickly fall behind the market, you'll be treated as a faceless and interchangeable unit of production, you will not see any sort of correlation between great work and rewards, the 10 or so levels of management between the CEO and you are reflected in every manager requesting a pointless 0-value-added-to-the-customer report from someone below him which percolates all the way down to rank and file employees having to waste large amounts of time in bureaucracy, made the worse by various execs justifying their positions by starting various initiatives that overlap and are at odds with each other and lead to even more wasted time.  So does the B in IBM stand for Bureaucracy?  Yes, but also the IB of IBM also stands for India-Based, as more and more positions are shifted there, yet the company still allocates way too few resources to be serious about anything it does and to do anything more than a half-baked job....who wants to work in such a demoralizing environment.