Company: IBM
Date: 2009-02-12
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current

Be very carefu
Pros: Some of the brightest people that I've ever worked with work at IBM.  IBM has invented a number of significant, important parts of the Information Technology industry.  This includes relational database technology and hard disk drive technology.  IBM is one of the few companies that actually performs the "Research" portion of "Research and Development".
Cons: Like many large companies, IBM is laden with bureaucracy and often inane procedure.  Also, it is completely beyond understanding why a company that has reported record earnings, record profits and has a positive outlook for 2009 would - one day after it's proclamation to the financial community - commence laying off 5,000 of its employees, most of whom were real contributors to the company's success.  IBM's approach to this latest round of layoffs was very calculating, ensuring that no single location was affected in a significant enough way to require additional notice or pay.