Company: IBM
Date: 2009-01-07
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current

IBM is an employer  to avoid.
Pros: IBM is a good place to pick up SOME professional & technical training and learn how large corporations work.  It is also helpful in work life balance by allowing employees to work from home.
Cons: IBM will work you to death.  They will pigeonhole you in the same job, limit your ability to learn and grow so that you can have a lifelong career.  They will treat you like a piece of meat, and dump you in a heartbeat.  You can do a great job, and get great results, and you can work 80 hours a week.  It doesn't matter.  All that matters is that they reach their profit targets, so the upper executives can get their big fat bonuses.  You will be subjected to unending stress and never know from one minute to the next if you still have a job.  You will usually not get an honest review of your work as management will rank you against other employees.  Even if management has a very talented and high performing team, some people will be ranked lower and get lowball performance assessments.  There is no fairness or honesty in the performance assessment system.