Company: IBM
Date: 2012-03-13
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current

Large Company with Many Resources for Employees, but Compensation System Unfair
Pros: Good work/life balance, wide variety of resources for employees to take advantage of, global opportunities, friendly colleagues, growing new college hire programs
Cons: The compensation system at IBM works to the advantage of executives at the expense of regular full-time employees. Raises and bonuses are based on an annual review, but even top 1 PBC performers are left with 2% raises and 5% bonuses. New college hires are being paid significantly more than employees with 1-2 years of experience, and management just makes excuses and blames Human Resources. Significant increases in pay can only be expected when one threatens to leave the company, and even still, IBM almost never will match competitors.