Company: IBM
Date: 2013-01-25
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Watch out for the PBC reviews
Pros: Great technology across the board. Hardware and Software plenty of areas you can work in at all levels.
Cons: Technical staff are treated like dog food. IBM focuses on sales and those who are sellers. 
PBC is a yearly review and managers have 20% targets to give their direct reports a PBC 3. If you get a 3 then you'll be put on a performance improvement plan which lasts 3 months if you don't get off it then you get another if you fail that then you are out. No matter how well you do or your team does your manager has a PBC 3 target so great employees get managed out for no reason other than the manager had a target.