Company: IBM
Date: 2019-01-31
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Work-from-home creates very productive, efficient, and drama-free environment
Pros: Most people work entirely from home which makes for unusually high productivity and high efficiency and keeps drama to a bare minimum.   This leads to increased job satisfaction and performance.  It also allows IBM to attract top talent without having to worry about attracting "acceptable" talent just because they happen to live in a certain location.  Most people are extremely helpful and service oriented.  Salary is competitive.
Cons: Very top heavy, especially in GBS.  In some areas of GBS, you'll have a VP, reporting to a VP, reporting to a VP and below them might be just 5 lower level employees.  Getting promoted in GBS is nearly impossible once you've hit a band 10 (which is lowest level of management).  Raises amount to 1% at the very most, if at all.  Annual bonuses are 1% to 2% at the most, if it all (but the ability to work from home with high productivity makes up for that). Company talks about valuing diversity but doesn't have practices in place to honor that talk.