Company: IBM
Date: 2008-06-13
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current

IBM is a good place to work, if you can find work / life balance.
Pros: Good benefits, competitive pay, flexibility in hours (depending on manager) and being able to work from home.  The company has an international presence so you'll get to work with people literally all over the world.  Depending on the position, you'll have opportunities for travel.
Cons: There is a lot of talk about work life balance but that's not really the culture.  While there is often some recognition for hard work/insane hours it rarely pays off financially.  Also raises and bonuses have dried up despite the company's good performance.  In most departments, many positions get back filled to places like China and India.  This makes people nervous.  Most of the products are not exactly that interesting to work on... but there are some cool things happening.