Company: IBM
Date: 2015-01-18
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current

Not your father's IBM
Pros: IBM can connect with any company and will usually hear customers forward thinking
Flexible working environments
Innovation with systems like Watson can impact the world in a positive way
Acquisitions of technology rather than feeling must recreate in its own version has allowed IBM to shore up its capabilities
Cons: IBM lost focus of its long honored reputation as an honorable organization
IBM is a member's only club with rare exception
Many sales reps feel cheated by arbitrary changes in agreed compensation after the deal is done
Focus on stock market versus long term planning impacts the short term changes in the company