Company: IBM
Date: 2020-06-16
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Wasteful Company
Pros: Vacation, parental leave, paid short term disability (13 weeks of sick days / year), working remotely during the covid scare of 2020
Cons: If you get really sick, and start to use up your short term disability, you will probably be fired. If you're really good at your job, you get promoted and get a nice salary, you will probably get laid off. If you're incompetent, you will probably get promoted ahead of other people for some odd reason. 401k match is once a year and if you leave at any time, obviously you won't get it. First big move of the new CEO? You guessed it, lay people off and buy another company. If you're integral to the development of one of the products, you will definitely get laid off because you can demand too high of a salary. 

One of my biggest complaints during the Sam years and early Ginny years was they keep hiring poorly for the jobs. Now, I haven't seen a new face that wasn't an intern in the past few years. Everything has to be tracked in triplicate. You have to log your hours on each account at the end of the week. You have to track the time spent performing a task in at least one system, even if your team already has one that fits what you do better. You have to predict how many hours your going to spend on your allocated account in another program many weeks in advance. There's always a new fad for doing business that they try that doesn't stick because none of the managers actually try to implement it. We had a regional exec visit a few years ago and she asked if we had heard about all these great new things that the leaders were rolling out, and nobody had heard anything about them because the company is so vertical that nothing from the top reaches the bottom, unless it's to lay people off. Those always get through.