Company: IBM
Date: 2014-11-15
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Ship capsizing in muck of poor morale
Pros: Interesting projects, freedom to explore, nice colleagues, well-meaning management, flexible work schedule
Cons: Fixation around short term earnings has resulted in an anorexia, where the company is starving its' employees and customers in favor of gorging it's shareholders.  The impact has been a finance driven company that is losing its core strength in engineering and innovation, as current talent leaves, and new talent is staying away.  Although there are many talented and potentially dedicated employees (including managers) remaining, there's a pervasive sense that the company has pivoted away from nurturing talent and caring for its employees.  As a result morale is generally very low, as employees feel stupid giving their all to a company that has elected not to reciprocate.  Although this dynamic is widely recognized in the company,  by not directly communicating about and addressing these issues, senior management seems to have abandoned the ship.