Company: IBM
Date: 2014-05-28
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Has degraded extensively over the years, as a company to work for
Pros: Good technical environment (semiconductor business) to expand knowledge base.  Empowered to do experiments as needed, to find answers to ongoing problems.
Cons: Penny pinching.  CEO and executives are focused ONLY on "EPS" (Earnings Per Share), and the price of common stock.  After all, this how they grow their personal wealth...through stock options.  Living in constant fear of being sold off or outsourced.  No conferences allowed.  Very little new equipment purchased for our lab.  Seem to be "cooking the books", for years now, to make the division more attractive to potential suitors. Forget about meaningful salary increases.  Many, many years since I saw one of those.