Company: IBM
Date: 2016-07-18
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Company in Decline
Pros: Pay is strong in areas of growth.  Work life balance is good. Employees are generally intelligent.  They let you have a Mac now.
Cons: The company seems incapable of delivering a product modern customers want.  The focus is on shifting revenue from old products to new products to keep the ship from sinking, not generating new revenue. Management seems to have no idea how to sell the product I build. There is no way to contribute in a meaningful way here - I am merely a cog in a giant machine.  Remote positions are going away.  Employees let go by the tens of thousands.  If I have to open Lotus Notes one more time, I might have seek out mental health care. The only thing standing in my way is the health insurance co-pay, which is ridiculously high, by the way.  Corporate offices are something out of Office Space - but somehow it's not funny now that I'm employed here. I thought the grass was greener - and I was wrong.