Company: IBM
Date: 2008-07-24
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current

It's not your father's IBM
Pros: Decent and comprehensive set of benefits. Ability to interact and network with bright people.  A robust infrastructure for access to employee benefit and technical information.
Cons: Annual resource actions by stealth that lop off 10% - even solid and above average performers - is demoralizing.  Minuscule or no salary increases. Far too much political correctness required for advancement.  I have over 20 years with IBM and moral is the lowest I have ever seen it.  People are in fear of keeping their job and therefore reluctant to stretch into a new assignments for fear of being the low person on the totem pole when the next RA hits.