Company: IBM
Date: 2010-07-07
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former

Over-matrixed, overly-complex global organization means politics drives everything
Pros: Large enough that regardless of what you have an interest in, someone, somewhere in the world, is working on it.  A good training ground for how to get along in a vast, global organization.
Cons: Easy to get completely lost in the maze of complexity and the bureacracy.  'Difficult to do business with' is consistently the number one complaint levelled against IBM by its customers, but it's exactly the same inside.  Their 'transformation' to a services company is a complete myth.  On the iside they still look and feels like a 70's something manufacturer.