Company: IBM
Date: 2008-12-27
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former

Like living in a socialist country with a healthy quality of life and full of soccer moms and dads.
Pros: 1. Above average workplace environment
2. Possible to explore other parts of a large organization
3. Education and skills growth
4. Looks good on a resume
5. Management and implementation methodologies are good (on paper)
Cons: 1. Cliques mean good opportunities go to friends and families, impossible to break into the "Club"
2. Lot of dead weight
3. Professional development managers are (typically) not great achievers and don't know how to motivate or manage high-performance employees
4. In practice, technical excellence is not given high priority; is fundamentally a sales organization
5. Easy to get stuck in a silo and feel like Rip Van Winkle in a couple of years