Company: IBM
Date: 2015-11-19
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Major structural changes needed for long-term success
Pros: Good work/life balance. Exciting marketing announcements and investments. Front line employees have good intentions. Brand recognition on your resume. Ability to work from home.
Cons: Very low employee morale. Customer relationships and influence eroding due to legacy products/services, archaic pricing models, company inflexibility, lack of agility, employee turnover, and customer audits. Very high employee turnover, oftentimes within the ranks of the best and brightest. Company culture does not encourage sticking your neck out, transformative ideas, ways of doing things. Getting things done internally takes a herculean amount of effort due to stifling bureaucracy. Tribal knowledge as a substitute for thorough training. No one has any real decision making ability until you reach the Vice President level. Centralized directives oftentimes ignore local market realities. Constant threat of layoffs creates a culture of desperation and fear.