Company: IBM
Date: 2020-12-11
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former

Ineffectual patenting machines
Pros: - clueless middle management leaves you alone, lets you do your own thing
- they let you patent everything even if the idea only works in powerpoint
Cons: - senior engineers and STSMs have been failing to deliver in whatever field they are competing in, but they remain arrogant nonetheless
- Watsons is a joke but company made a great deal out of it
- Focus on cloud faces significant head wind and competition
- MBAs in GBS overpromised IBM's products by packaging useless patents and unnecessary engineering services into obscure overpriced consulting contracts, hurting company reputation in the long run
- always quick to market new technologies, whether it be AI, 5nm process, or quantum computing, but consistently fails to commercialize and win new customers