Company: IBM
Date: 2017-10-12
Overall rating: 5/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Confirmed

Great place with true academy-like research environment
Pros: Flexibility (work from home or from my home country), research environment similar to academia (flexibility and long term goals) , excellent work-life balance, ability to find experts on any field (from math, physics, social science, operating systems, programming, supercomputing, weather, aeronautics, ...) in the very same building!  Just knock on their door and start the brainstorming. Each of us have a private (not shared) office were we can do meeting, discuss, etc. and do whatever we want.
Cons: It does not provide the "modern" environment and 'cool' things like free food services, or cooking lessons, etc. as other tech companies... I guess this is mainly because the workforce is older than in other tech companies, so people does not care about these extra 'cool' things... which in the end, the things are 'cool' the first day but then you realize that you just walk to your desk and work most of the days.  I just miss the free food, but with the good salary all these tech companies have, what is the % of savings because free food? <1%?