Company: IBM
Date: 2009-01-12
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current

Big Blue - great place to cut your teeth; leave before it makes you bitter.
Pros: Stable - fits the "just do my job" kind of person. 
Great access to self-study resources, if you find  the time.
I miss my ThinkPad.
I miss Sametime. It's a great tool to connect with any subject matter expert in the organisation. And they're usually  quite friendly.
Cons: Stable - don't rock the boat culture.
IBM brags of innovation and all but the culture doesn't reflect it. Many good ideas never saw the light-of-day. 
Malaysia was (is??) seen as a low-cost and hence, unfairly, low-skilled location. Great developers never got the recognition they deserved and have since left. 
I myself have been passed over for a Bravo award just because of the numbers game. 
Some managers need to get past their obsession with the hierarchical organisation.