Company: IBM
Date: 2013-01-21
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Greatly disappointing.
Pros: Most departments discourage employees from working over time.
Cons: The A/NZ sales and marketing community is sadly filled with dirty politics. Highly questionable behaviours abound that challenge even the company's own Business Conduct Guidelines. Sales directors openly have favourites, have pets, and support the agenda of these favourite few, and care very little about the rest and care very little about quiet achievers. Sadly top achievers have gone to competitors. It's all about appearance, the loudest, the good looking, and the most outgoing over competency.

Employees and 1st line management are heavily micro-managed. Make no mistake, the sincere and hard working will not be promoted or awarded. The manipulative, the cunning, the politically savvy, and the highly aggressive fight for the opportunities and promotions. Be warned, your Manager will tell you roles are too high a Band, and refrain from recognising talent and skill in order that they may not need to justify salary increase, band increase, and keep you as resource for his or her own team's needs.

Directors and Business Unit Executives tend exhibit Corporate Psychopath like behaviour.
First line Managers are mostly terrible.

Promotions are based on tenure rather than competency - hence the high attrition rate of young employees in the company.