Company: IBM
Date: 2015-01-23
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

IBM
Pros: I learned a lot at IBM / Tivoli.   I spent a long time working a Level 2 position working my way up the ladder.   I started out with Tivoli Monitoring for OS product and then I moved to Tivoli Monitoring for Databases and then worked on the Tivoli Data Warehouse product toward the end of my career.   When IBM outsourced thousands I decided not to let it tear me up and that was a great decision. I began contracting with IBM and continued for many more years.   I worked remotely for IBM Global Services for the worlds fortune 500 companies and it gave me insight on how IT and DataCenters work with the worlds largest corporations.   Very few still work there that I worked with and most the hires are for interns.
Cons: Very large corporations can make bad decisions and still survive.   Thousands are hired and thousands are laid off.  Make sure you go into it with eyes wide open.   They buy a company and then chop chop and consolidate.   They focus on the stock but it never really seems to go anywhere very fast anymore.   Make sure you make your own plan for your career if you jump in.