Company: IBM
Date: 2014-10-24
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

Once Great, Now Be Careful
Pros: Once a great company, but now living on past laurels. Pay is pretty good and benefits are average to good. Pays a bit more than lip service to the idea of work/life balance.
Cons: Totally focused on their 2015 road map, which is now a chain around their necks. With a lack of new revenue, everything is focused on reducing costs. That means continual layoffs, a move to low-paid contract workers, very few salary increases, and such a focus on cost controls that you need a VP to sign off on minor expenses and most employees have been buying their own office supplies for years.