Company: IBM
Date: 2016-09-26
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current

Senior IT Specialist
Pros: Fantastic highly technically skilled people to work with.  Opportunity to move to other jobs to grow skill.  A lot of flexibility to get your job done.
Cons: IBM once prided itself in being a family company where you frequently saw IBM'ers to the 3rd and 4th generations of families.  Now, just another major multi-international company where you are a resource to be utilized and discarded at corporate discretion. 

Once a company that you hired on to and retired with.  Now, just another IT company on your resume.  Employee morale low due to layoffs, collocation requirements, etc.

Benefits are average for a company this size and the company continues to whittle them down annually or pass more of the cost down to the employee.

Company seeds into your 401K, but now in the US you are only eligible for the seed if you are employed through Dec. 31 of that year.  Company has an annual growth driven profit bonus plan, but the bonuses of past couple of years have been very slim (< 1%) if you received one at all.