Company: IBM
Date: 2008-06-16
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current

Good company if you are a techie
Pros: Huge company with a lot of opportunities to try different career options; technical persons get a lot of respect; probably one of the few places left to do research; people respect people; managers spend a lot of time to promote employees and really care about your career development
Cons: very limited business growth opportunities, frequent resource actions in technology division, and as a result compensation is not great, no stock option at all, very little bonus; managers are paid the same or less than engineers; office buildings are in poor condition; almost unusable fitness center for a site with ~5000 employees; health insurance cost is high compared with other high tech employers