Company: IBM
Date: 2015-09-15
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Elephants CAN dance!  But they will kill you!
Pros: Great technology and lots of smart folks.  100% self direction, no micro-management.  A company big enough to have expertise in nearly everything and if they don't they carry enough influence with partners to assure someone gets on a plane to help finish a difficult project if needed.
Cons: These are near endless, just like the hours, phone calls and failure of the internal systems.  Most folks with any tenure work in international teams.  This means continual early morning or late night conference calls that when added up will equal 70+ hours per week.

In the extra time an employee has between 6am and 11PM calls,  one must fit in time for expense reports, booking travel and answering emails.   The travel booking system is abysmal, the expense report system is very difficult to use when it works at all, and the email system is extremely flaky.