Company: IBM
Date: 2014-05-17
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Too big to be manageable
Pros: Great people work in there. 
The experience is in overall positive, but it is the kind of job that you cannot do for too long.
You have freedom to move to other teams in the country in case you hate your job. They also promote the rotation to try to avoid that people get to confortable on their job.
Cons: It varies on every country IBM is in, but in Slovakia you get no overtime paid, in any way. That means that you will stay very late sometimes to support deals you are getting no comission for, for basically no extra money or vacation. You can cope on that for few weeks, but not for long.

It is extremely inflexible in many ways. You can start from the bottom, perform perfectly and get a better position, but your salary will not be raised in a year for a battery of reasons: Frozen budget, the raises take place only twice a year, your salary cannot be uplifted more than 20% a year... They recognize the hard work, but they are extremely reluctant to pay for it.

They have stupid internal policies. Everybody knows they are stupid but nobody stands up and shouts for a change.

For an IT company, the technological resources are not the best. They try to sell cloud but don´t offer it to the teams, the file size of an employee is 150mb when your gmal account has gigas...