Company: IBM
Date: 2013-07-17
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

Exhausting culture coupled with regular cutbacks and reductions
Pros: - Historic company -- felt a genuine surge of pride the first time I received a badge
- Very smart, very driven people throughout org
- Excellent online internal resources
Cons: - Layoffs, layoffs, layoffs -- feeling of "who's next?" is pervasive throughout organization
- Lack of trust in leadership
- Shortage of managerial courage. If something doesn't go as planned, enjoy the show as "leaders" scurry out of the way and try to assess blame
- They preach work-life balance, family first, the importance of self-development, etc. ... but these are given extremely low priority when it comes to day-to-day
- Performance appraisal and compensation programs are absolute embarrassments. Unless you're a 'superstar' or know someone, it is not unusual to go years (literally) without an increase