Company: IBM
Date: 2017-08-09
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Confirmed

Learning opportunities abound
Pros: Excellent opportunities for learning. Formal learning is institutionalised with minimum of 11 training days per year being mandatory. Lots of informal learning opportunities too, if you put up your hand for stretch assignments. Top talent definitely get many more opportunities for learning, mentoring visibility and therefore growth. People processes are fairly detailed and sophisticated. Moving from one role to another depends solely on one's ability to network and take up stretch assignments
Cons: People managers may not be good leaders/managers as keeping the organization flat is not a priority. Some are forced into People Manager roles to adhere to max reportees per manager or for geographical convenience esp in global / cross-location teams