Company: IBM
Date: 2008-12-26
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current

More autonomy required
Pros: IBM offers a good work/life balance and the management generally keeps staff aware of how the company is performing.
Cons: Lack of autonomy with endless approvals required in order to achieve anything. Performance appraisals are based on results and how you behave. Unfortunately the latter can be open to so much subjectiveness and politics. Generally power remains in the people who have worked for the company for a long time, not those who are good performers.