Company: IBM
Date: 2008-12-30
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current

Evaluate Carefully
Pros: Exposure to leading-edge technology.  Very strong R&D capabilities.  Great peers to work with.  Strong intellectual capital capabilities.  Opportunity to do diverse work.
Cons: Strategic corporate investments that are not carefully thought thru.  Corporate PR that gets ahead to corporate capabilties.  Senior executive cliques.  Upward communication demanded but very little strong downward communication.  Frequent requirements for providing the same information and reports in different formats to different people.