Company: IBM
Date: 2010-05-10
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former

Mixed review
Pros: Certainly IBM can bring much to bear in terms of resources when it needs to react, and through management escalation, this was often the only way to operate.
Cons: In the past 4 or 5 years there was no investement in education, skills development, or personal growth.  Micro-management of small expenditures such as thanks awards and ink cartridges did more to hurt morale than the money it saved.  I think IBM's plan is to cut the US based workforce as much as possible with the goal to eliminate the more seasoned and higher salaried people.  This was particularly stressful given that the stock and financial conditions of the company were very solid, so it was obvious this was more about labor arbitrage than taking drastic steps to help the company's balance sheet.