Company: IBM
Date: 2015-11-04
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Confirmed

Needs Help
Pros: Good work/life balance, good pay and benefits; generally challenging work with some good co-workers. Few young people, however....
Cons: Management is totally political. Company is too large and there is too much competition for power/budget leading to a lack of communication and too much infighting. Many key "implementers" (the real 'talent'), are billed on an hourly basis to clients and have absolutely no time to share their knowledge; far too many managers protect their turf and staff may literally be held back from changing positions. True Leadership is hard to find; most are "playing the game." Too many employees are aging, old, outdated, and just show up for their cheese until they can go home. Real innovators seldom stay as they get tired of being surrounded by drones - and again, real talent is too busy for anything but taping things together to get our products to work at the customer's site. Most employees there really want to do well, but need real management and support; instead they get too much management and tons of politics that have little to do with their job.