Company: IBM
Date: 2014-10-24
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Worst technology company I have worked for in my 25 year career
Pros: Large company with a lot of career avenues to go down if you don't mind the cons (see below).
High amount of 'Life' in the 'work/life' balance (because of the cons .. see below).
Cons: Highly bureaucratic company where staff are measured on their conformance to internal procedures and not measured on their ability (at least in software group sales).
Poor pay with limited ability to gain annual raises that meet salaries of smaller technology companies. 
80% of employees focus is driven to be internal and not external on their customers where it should be. 
Very low innovation compared with the movers-and-shakers in the technology world right now.
Very difficult to actually get anything done with any speed due to the bureaucratic culture.