Company: IBM
Date: 2010-04-20
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current

IBM treats people terribly
Pros: not much.  name recognition. 401k match.
Cons: IBM continues to degrade in their treatment of employees.  Business air travel has been eliminated.  salary increases no longer are given to more than half of the population.  Bonuses are but paltry crumbs.  Overloading employees with unrealistic expectations and unreasonable deadlines is now the norm.  personal/career development is nonexistent (becasue the execs don't care about it and thus don't place importance on it with their management team).  cost cutting is deep and they are taking away ability to order basic supplies.  Any hotel stays demand you stay at a hotel on a limited list (and that list is a pathetic selection of low rate/budget hotels.  budget for recognition and awards for employees has been shut down.  If you are considering working for IBM, I warn you...  It will be a painful experience and you won't be treated with the level of respect you deserve.  I spent 10 years including graduate education to have a job that was respectable.  I never expected to be treated like this as a result of my hard work in earning my degrees.  IBM should be ashamed of iself.  The bean counters there don't give a rats ass about your quality of life and workplace experience.  I can only hope more people write about the way they're being treated and perhaps word will get out and force something to change.