Company: IBM
Date: 2015-01-04
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

Good workers, very bad executive management.
Pros: A lot of good, helpful workers. Decent salary. Flexible work schedule.
Cons: Working 60+ hours a week not uncommon, including weekends, just to keep up with the work. Performance ratings are given out on a curve. So, even if you are in an area with a lot of high performers, only a small percentage are allowed to get high ratings and good performers will get low ratings. Those that get the lower ratings are candidates for being laid off.
Executives are focused on EPS and stock prices - likely due to the fact that a lot of their salary is in stock bonuses. Instead of focusing on delivering high-quality products and satisfying their customers to increase revenue, they rely on cutting expenses, including lay-offs. The employees are fearful of the next round of lay-offs, which occur more and more frequently. There is no longer respect for the employees by the executives like there used to be.