Company: IBM
Date: 2010-06-01
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former

Balkanized by Acquisitions
Pros: Lots of variety available.
Access to vast resources, especially software.
Cons: Acquisitions, especially in remote locations, do not integrate with IBM culture.
IBM is highly balkanized by its acquisition strategy.
Very important to understand the culture of the acquired company.  More so than IBM's.
Acquisitions are very uneven in terms of talent, especially in senior management, who often do not know how to be effective in a large corporation.
Cultural friction between acquisitions and corporate.
Local senior management was outright hostile to corporate executive and senior management.