Company: IBM
Date: 2013-07-12
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current

Old fashioned, company still living in 1990
Pros: Working from home most times
Very slow and relaxing
High Salary - if you negotiate well
Not too much competition or pressure as they really don't have a strategy or goal
Cons: To start with, they live at least 20 years in the past. They have no idea of recent developments in technology. Highly irritating products like Lotus Notes, Symphony and whatnot. IBM tries to ape any product out there which is famous and used e.g. they have their own version of Google Analytics called 'Tea Leaf'. Nothing wrong with copying, but instead of giving a differentiating factor, these products are highly unusable and cost about 10 times more than the original. A bit mad.

A lot of brainwashing. So basically they make products that no one is interested in, force employees to use them because no one else will use them, and then brainwash you into thinking its good just because its IBM made. In addition, you are expected to think greatly of IBM employees just because they are part of IBM (some people here are really really skill-less)

The worst thing I found here is the amount of monthly lay-offs. Anyone on bench even for a short while is laid off. Projects think they do you a favor by employing you from bench even if you are overqualified. Weird.

IBM is a slowly dying organism because of its ancient technology and attitude. It is a bit difficult to be part of this organism and not feel like you are dying with it in your career. I am trying to get out, but dont want to make another rash decision like IBM.