Company: IBM
Date: 2017-02-15
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

A Work in Progress, Do Your Research
Pros: Amazing programs like these:
Corporate Service Corps - which is like a Corporate sponsored version of the peach corps where if selected you will do a pro bono project in a developing country
Good Maternity and Paternity Leave of up to 6 weeks with pay
The legacy 401k retirement plan match of 6% (if you are not in the GTS business unit)
Good work location, hour flexibility as long as you get the job done well (at least it has been until now)
Good health benefits packages (although quite expensive for family coverages)
A lot of amazing individuals working at IBM, the people are what matter most
Dedication to clients success is a way of life at IBM, it's real and it is how we work!
Cons: Management, 
I don't know how else to say this but there are a lot of BAD manager at IBM. A lot of secrecy and elitism that is inexcusable. The biggest issue with this, all the many many rounds of "resource actions" that are layoffs, back to office programs being the latest gimmick, never seem to weed out the top heavy command and control culture. CEO Ginni Rometty is different and is trying her best to steer the ship in a new direction. I hope she can succeed, 2016 was the first glimmer of hope in like 10 years. HR practices like not giving ANY of the 401k matching fund until last pay check of December for the entire year, moving one job family into a different 401k program announced at the end of 2015 was also a very strange one done by HR. The management and HR specifically often do not exhibit the company values in my experience over the last 16 years.