Company: IBM
Date: 2014-08-05
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Opportunity Opener
Pros: Colleagues are second to none. A fantastic group of people with knowledge to share.
If you are fresh from University or coming in as a placement from uni, then IBM is the place to be - a great start to a career. Experienced hires may well end up bored and frustrated with their role.
Internal job market means you can change your role completely if you want.
Good benefits program
Cons: Bell curve fitting in yearly "PBC" can frustrate and lead to resentment between employees
Pay is not transparent, meaning "equal" employees are not paid the same...an obvious source of contention
Endless red tape, but then that is true for any large organisation
Even more endless self affirming emails.
Many long term employees treading water until retirement, which prevents the progression of anyone hungry for advancing their career
A heavy requirement of "who you know" to help career advancement