Company: IBM
Date: 2014-12-08
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

a usual multinational company with all the advantages and disadvantages
Pros: •managament is friendly and helpful
•most of the colleagues are young, open-minded and supportive
•managament is really flexible about working-hours and time-spending if your job is well-done
•office(working area) in DunaTower is neat, airy, bright, spacious and comfortable (compared to other multi's offices)
•good atmosphere even if it is quarter-end
•offers an attractive starting-salary compared to hungarian circumstances (depending on the department)
•perfect reference in the resume
•best way to get know an international organization and see how it works
Cons: •managament usually holds back information about future (more or less organizational) changes and any relevant information which comes from top/higher-managament (I think it is a kind of company policy or usual stuff at mammoth companies)
•some of the managers behave like their job would be rocket-since, but in most of the cases the only difference between a freshman and a manager is the experience that they have, but not the real achieved academic knowledge (okay, i understand they need to take serious their role otherwise they are going crazy, but there is a limit..)
•salary has not been increased for years, the only reason they are opening new positions and hiring is the amount of people who are leaving IBM to pursue better career possibilities
•all the talented young-guns are leaving within 3 years
•leavings are handled as top secret info
•huge differences between departments in the view of working-hours, extra working-hours, holidays, workload, IBM funded events, etc.