Company: IBM
Date: 2016-05-07
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

"YOU ARE LUCKY TO HAVE A JOB."
Pros: Was technically a job. Some of the people I worked with were nice.
Cons: I left and doubled my salary. I expect to quadruple my salary within the next 5-10 years. I had an interview with an elite development team and never responded after seeing life outside IBM. 

THERE ARE NO RAISES. THERE ARE NO PROMOTIONS. "YOU ARE LUCKY TO HAVE A JOB."

Want a raise? "You're lucky you HAVE a job." They paid me around 30,000 despite having a 4 year degree and providing training for the entire office. They "pay overtime" on top of this, but overtime is not allowed/never approved. If you are forced to work overtime and complain about it, you will be randomly selected as a poor performer and fired. 

Many North American jobs are going to India / Brazil / Argentina.

Anybody they hire, which they don't actually hire people by the way, are severly undertrained for their position. It's quite literally people off the street. One of the people on my team was a basketball player, for example.

Disagree with illegal practices, i.e. threatening to fire people for not working free overtime? "If you don't like it, why don't you quit?" (This is probably why IBMs centers are largely in areas with no job competition).

Somebody sexually harasses you or makes a racist remark so you file a complaint? What a coincidence, you've been selected as one of the North American mass firing targets. Certainly no correlation to the team of lawyers that showed up to plan your firings for weeks!

Coffee is considered a luxury. If you are a "whiney complainer" about things like "Not being paid your legally agreed upon salary" then they will threaten to take this away. Nothing else is free.