Company: IBM
Date: 2014-05-28
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Confirmed

An organization with too many moving parts.
Pros: Work/Life Balance
Exceptionally brilliant people within Engineering, Project Management, Consulting and Marketing.
Tremendous resources to global knowledge and best practices.
International assignments.
Education and training.
Cons: Good managers can make work fun, meaningful, and all those warm, fuzzy things.  Good managers can make work feel like a home away from home.  They can make your team feel like a family.  Not within IBM.  

Mid-Manager leadership in sales and some areas of marketing are segregated to relationships, personal goals and bias.  

IBM Canada Management for example behave like school yard cliques.  You're either in or you are out.  Pedigree and social status also factor in on who receives coveted sales territories, and leadership positions.  Diversity of people in prominent executive level positions in IBM Canada are near to non-existent.  

Acquired companies such as Cognos have an internalized culture that at times does not embrace the spirit of IBM's values to develop and grow one's career from within.  Career progression is select and bias.    

Innovation is stagnant in some divisions.