Company: IBM
Date: 2012-04-04
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former

Unsatisfactory
Pros: Diversity / inclusion policies
Ability to work from home
Good benefit package
Good starting salary
IBM cache still sells in the job market
Cons: Annual raises and bonuses are minimal to non-existent
Quantity of hours worked is valued much more than quality of work produced
Overtime expectation increases every year; a minimum of 20% overtime is required to receive anything more than a mediocre annual performance review
Successful performance may lead to repetiitive work assignments thereby limiting the chance to develop new skills
'Resource actions' to permanently lay off US employees occur at least once every year resultilng in ever lower US employee morale
Some managers take as gospel any negative comment made by a third party about an employee without ever discussing the negative comment with the employee
Some managers prone to passive aggressive behavior