Company: IBM
Date: 2011-01-01
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current

Most efforts are spent navigating politics instead of innovation.
Pros: Large, carries weight in the industry, lot of contacts.  Working for IBM provides a degree of credibility and enables one to get in the door.
Cons: Large company, many processes and people who spend their time gumming up efforts aimed at success.   There are some executives who are willing to take risks, but most are not and spend the majority of their efforts protecting themselves and trying to prepare for their next job.  Good leaders are shuffled every two or so years and never finish what they started.