Company: IBM
Date: 2014-07-08
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Came to IBM through an acquisition.
Pros: Working for IBM has been interesting.  Some of the great things are the benefits and potential to move between different jobs.  There is a lot of opportunity to work with people from many diverse backgrounds.  The flexibility of the workday is also very nice for me.  I'm not sure if it is like that across the company or just within my area.
Cons: I came to IBM through an acquisition which was very difficult.  My previous company had a very specific, "start up" culture that I miss immensely.  I feel like everything I try to do now is just met with red tape.  It seems through the acquisition management tried to appear to be transparent but it seemed to backfire as they sent so many lengthy emails trying to communicate things, that it no one had time to read and digest everything.  Additionally, it felt that no one really cared about us.  It was made clear that we are IBM and we need to work a certain way now.