Company: IBM
Date: 2011-02-11
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former

No matter the employee's level of education and high work ethic,  IBM has chosen pros who reap benefits of your labor.
Pros: I joined IBM as a result of an acquisition. I found the best  reason to work for IBM is the option of  (in some cases) working from home. This meant for me, that I  could work 24/7 without interrutptions. The IBM Intra-Net web-site  is awesome, in that  it offers training  for learning IBM's standards, policies, terminology and  acceptable methodologies. Each Manager is expected to own its procurement, asset and administrative operations. IBM has an internal Award program where fellow IBM'rs can reward you for assisting through-out the year with a limit of 3 per year. You can choose awesome gifts/offers from the IBM web-site.
Cons: Legacy IBM'rs are for the most part professionals at utilizing the newcomer's knowledge for their benefit. At IBM,  the intra-net sites are designed for any employee to procure,  inquire,  and follow through with individual as well as team  projects. Well,  the legacy IBM'r will not train the newcomer, but will wait for the newcomer to learn his or her way  and then follow up with that newcomer who is bullied/used to procure their  product,  help the legacy IBM'r to reach their goals (while the newcomer's goals are not  met). If the legacy IBM'r is not assisted,  they will escalate  to management until you not just assist them,  but  take on their project  only to  re-suface at the end of the project to take it off your hands. You are then to account for why your own projects are behind.  At this point you work 24/7 to stay abreast of  your work.  I would like to fore-warn any IBM acquisitioned company employee/manager/director,   no matter how great you are with  burning the candle at both ends to get the job done,  hard work, due diligence, following processes and procedures,  if IBM has someone in line for your job whether out-sourcing to India, China,  or Boulder Colorado,  you will have to start to look elsewhere for work.  IBM can acquisition a whole company simly to acquire what some may deem a small hub and then  to dismantle departments until all is gne and the hub to be re-named giving it  a new iBM-related Acronym.  AS you and your company applicastions will be sun-setted into the wild BLUE Yonder!!!!