Company: IBM
Date: 2012-12-22
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

IBM is great if you are a shareholder but not so great if you're an employee
Pros: Access to extremely smart industry leaders within the company, good focus on customer satisfaction and creating solid products and services. Reasonable nenefits.
Cons: I was with the company for 10 years and saw the culture erode signficantly from high employee morale to low. The job I took after leaving IBM was a 50% improvement in compensation and this isn't uncommon. The issue is that they've cut so much cost out of the business trying to march to their Earnings per Share roadmap that it has had a far reaching effect on the allowable operating expenditure of the various business units. This translates into promotions being few and far between, measly compensation and raises and extenuating circumstances required to attend education or conferences that involve travel. The culture is also quite hierarchical vs. collegial and egalitarian.