Company: IBM
Date: 2012-04-25
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former

Difficult challenge to be on an internal design team within a relatively non-progressive technology environment.
Pros: Extremely flexible schedule with relatively competitive design salaries. Projects offer challenging design problems even though they center around enterprise technology, security, and development requirements. Opportunity to work on projects that affect millions of users.
Cons: Company is extremely slow and conservative. Design is always listed as a high priority yet frequently left out of major product decisions. Transparency of business goals and directives is lacking. Cross-team communication is difficult given silo'ed departments. Hierarchal/pyramid recognition structure with little 'team' acknowledgement.