Company: IBM
Date: 2008-06-12
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current

Under Sam Palmisano, IBM has steadily gone from a company that valued it's employees to just another body shop.
Pros: IBM offers excellent opportunites for career growth.
Cons: IBM touts a "Work/Life Balance" policy, yet expects its employees to work an average of 5 hours of overtime per week.  IBM also recently reclassified over 7000 IT Specialists from salary to hourly, reduced their pay by 15%, and told them they could make it up with overtime.  However, that overtime is not available on all contracts.