Company: IBM
Date: 2009-02-06
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current

Not the IBM that impressed people 20 years ago.
Pros: Movement throughout the company.  Decent pay and benefits.  Fellow employees are friendly and usually pretty sharp.  You do feel like a team, especially since the salaries are rather clustered together.
Cons: Management is pretty incompetent.  Products have taken a turn for the worse lately.  Too much pressure on selling and not enough on relationships with customers.  Shady practices with lay offs and outsourcing.  The morale has been pretty low due to the removal of pension benefits and health benefits even though the company was flush with money.  5,000 people were laid off last month even with record profits.  Way too many VPs and directors.  They take care of each other and rarely consider the first line managers or employees.