Company: IBM
Date: 2015-06-26
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former

IT Specialist
Pros: The first line managers I worked for were good people and my coworkers were nice as well.  As a remote employee I did not have to cope with commuting and my schedule was flexible to an extent. I could take time during the day to do personal things sometimes since I needed to do other work at night or early in the morning with colleagues or clients overseas.
Cons: As time went on my organization shifted from a primarily US staffed team to about 35% US and 65% internationally based workers. My international colleagues were mostly very professional but there were still problems supporting US based clients. During US working hours clients expected attention for their needs but the assigned person from my team would be often offline due to timezone differences. Also, there seemed to be a push to replace IBM regular employees with contract workers.