Company: IBM
Date: 2013-11-14
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

Top-heavy, fossilized company whose best days are behind it
Pros: Worked there 14 years and left on my own
Very nice, professional and well-qualified employees with significant learning opportunities
Large network of current and former employees.  Still well regarded in the marketplace
Work at home flexibility can be ideal for your personal situation
Cons: - Little to no opportunity for advancement, unless you are willing to travel 100% or move your family to a developing country. 
- little to no salary growth at all.  IBM management makes it clear that you should feel lucky to have a job with Big Blue and are shocked when anyone leaves the Blue Bubble. 
- Doing more with less means that you have more than one job and are barely compensated for your first job
- Cost cutting and slashing employee benefits are ALL IBM management cares about these days.  I would not want to be a customer. 
- The myopic quarter to quarter view that IBM Finance (and therefore IBM Management) takes to meet its EPS numbers and satisfy the Street is stifling any real transformation potential.