Company: IBM
Date: 2013-07-01
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Confirmed

Huge company with some exceptional people, but gets in it's own way.  Poor people management excellent financial mgt.
Pros: Deep pockets and technology to properly fund and support interesting projects, great wealth of talented people to draw from, many whom go on to start other companies.  Good social and technical  interaction between employees all over the world = excellent teaming.  Acquisitions have been very well chosen.
Cons: Inconsistent management, too much politics and no long term measurement of management decisions.  Acquisitions not well integrated quickly enough, focus on process may unnecessarily scare away good talent - since most of it is trivial.