Company: IBM
Date: 2014-02-17
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Confirmed

100+ year company with an unrivaled portfolio of technology offerings.
Pros: - With its history of research and patents, it boasts a great culture of innovation.  
- Benefits are competitive in many areas, and people, for the most part, and bright and easy to work with.
Cons: - Large company with typical process and political problems.  
- Too often, leadership changes course creating instability and a fear of where you will end up.  
- If you are joining IBM new, push for as high of an upfront salary as possible, because increases above 3% rarely exist, even with promotions.  
- IBM is a giant finance company with stakeholder obligations its first and foremost priority - employees don't even make the top 10... they are treated like assets.  
- With a company as large as IBM, the people that hide and do very little (except fill their calendar with meetings to make themselves believe they are productive) abound.  There are very few people who actually "do".