Company: IBM
Date: 2009-12-14
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former

Would not recommend IBM to any USA employees
Pros: - Ability to use flex time for your daily schedule.  
- Ability to work from home part or full time.  
- Talented non-management workforce.  
- Salary is competitive.
Cons: - Offshoring of jobs to BRIC countries has destroyed employee morale..
- Work life balance is awful with mandatory billable hour and overtime targets requiring you to work so much overtime that you cancel out every holiday and vacation day you've earned.
- No company allocated time for education or career growth (have to do it over your vacation or on top of overtime).  
- Employee review and appraisal process has become completely subjective.  Management uses a "relative contribution" metric employees have no visibility to.
- Raises and bonuses were little or nothing this year when IBM was making record profits.
- Employee health care costs are rising double digits every year.