Company: IBM
Date: 2012-04-20
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current

High pressure workload and expectation to use up weekends working without pay
Pros: Highly respected name
Good exposure to unusual management practices
Multicultural working environment
Ability to work from home when required
Flexible up to a point
Emphasis on innovation
Cons: Promotion esentially time served based rather than merit based
Lack of training
Too easy to get trapped in a muddy backwater without gaining transferrable skills
Mushroom management
Too hierachical, with multitude of managers with overlapping responsibility
Stupid cost controls, you can get a brand new laptop no problem, but forget getting a bag to put it in, or even a pen to write with.