Company: IBM
Date: 2011-08-18
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former

Great place to work for if your reporting manager is a true leader
Pros: IBM Software Labs is the next best place after IBM research Labs, within IBM.
- Great benefits
- Highly respected within IBM
- Compensation, package, is much higher than other IBM business units
- Great work life balance. You can work from any where any time. ( But all depends on your immediate manager)
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Cons: - Your immediate reporting manager holds immense responsibilities. He can make or break your life. So if the right people are not in the right place, or you happen to be under the wrong person your life would be screwed.
- Slow moving organization. Need to negotiate hard while getting in. Once you are in getting a Fat rise is a day dream.
- Filled with people who wants to "Settle down" in life and are with the organization for 20-30 years. So making a change happen is a big task. You need to have patience
- Getting a promotion depends on lot of internal credentials and degrees, rather than the right skills