Company: IBM
Date: 2015-10-30
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

Struggling to catch up with the marketplace
Pros: - People - strong relationships and and a supportive community
- Access to a vast knowledge and skills base
- Flexible working (work from home etc.)
- Ability to move around internally
Cons: - Senior leadership often have a myopic focus, driven by their performance objectives. This focus often drives dysfunctional behaviour and impacts long term prospects for the company for the sake of short term window-dressing benefits
- For a technology company, there are too many people running parts of the organisation who are simply managers, without a true appreciation either for the market, or what it is that we make and do
- The company has been late in spotting where the puck is going to be, and is struggling to quickly adapt to address cloud and software opportunities, with a workforce who in large part have a legacy skill-set
- Technology people play second fiddle to sellers and managers - neither of whom play much part in the technologies that create value for customers or shareholders
- Long term employees are not rewarded. Bonuses are tiny for non-sales staff, as are pay awards, which are negligible increments, and totally separate from the job role you perform (e.g. a promotion will almost certainly not result in a pay increase).