Company: IBM
Date: 2013-03-25
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

IBM's vision of deeper skills and higher margin services is good, but the implemenation is poor
Pros: IBM is a vast company that includes numerous lines of business: finding something of interest is almost always possible; there are a lot of highly qualified and dedicated individuals with whom to work;
Cons: IBM's senior management and executive staff's focus on the so-called 2015 plan (US$20/EPS), and so-called shareholder value and the policies resulting from that reinforce the view within the engineering community of IBM's lack of care about its employees; 2012's change in (IBM US) 401K policy is merely the latest in a long line of insults to its employees;  shareholders love IBM; almost no employee I speak with enjoys working at this company.

What do we (rank-and-file) employees see?  We see an executive staff that has increased their options and share ownership (reducing income tax bite) while non-executive staff have not seen the increases in pay (or other compensation) and an increasingly brutal culture that shows blatant disregard for these same employees while paying mere lip service to the idea of a positive culture.