Company: IBM
Date: 2010-02-18
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current

No longer the place it once was.
Pros: You meet some great individuals. The company is well regarded externally, so looks good on your CV.
Cons: Recognition and reward downgraded year on year. Disjointed strategy. Teams do not win and lose as teams. Some individuals win at the expense of others and management seem unwilling to recognise or acknowledge the problems that this combination of circumstances creates. The company is too big to consider the individual. Decisions are made at a 50,000 foot level globally, whether they are appropriate for the local market or not (often not since they are US-centric). Finding information is incredibly difficult. IBM is a very closed environment. Long term IBMers regularly say "IBM is all about who you know". That is probably the best summary I can give of the company.