Company: IBM
Date: 2008-06-11
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current

Big Sammy P, don't promise praise your employees and then stab them in the back.
Pros: Generally the people have been fun to work with.  Flexibility has been good - if you have personal situations during the day people are understanding about you needing to deal with them.  They will pay for your education if it's approved by management.
Cons: Many layoffs, low moral.  The performance rating structure is horrible and the raises and bonuses are awful.  The compensation is already low compared to many of my friends in similar jobs at other companies.  Because of the performance rating the team structure is turned into a competition to get ahead where the pushy obnoxious people are the ones who get the promotions.