Company: IBM
Date: 2018-04-07
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current

Not what I expected.
Pros: It is a good name, looks good on the resume. If you worked here, you are probably smart and that should help you.
Cons: There is a book , "A View from Beneath the Dancing Elephant".
I did not read it, but the title is great. There is a saying, "RAs are family matter", such as people actually try to make a living and support families while the elephant is stumping around them.

Very bureaucratic and inhuman, people are only resources. If you spend at least 3 years here, you will notice that half of the people you worked with are gone by that time. Extreme amount of talent is let go by the constant RAs. At the same time the company is hiring new people for the same skill set. I have not seen any effort to match existing talents with opportunities. I actually would like to see proactive management of the work force by constant training, re-training, cross-training according to the changing need of the company.

Benefits are getting more and more expensive, compensation is stagnant with zero inflation adjustment.

This year's most important stuff is "diversity and inclusion" and giving people lessons about the "unconscious bias", but this seems to be an attempt to tap into cheap labor even more. What about professional competency, which itself would include the above already?

Look elsewhere and do not waste your time here.