Company: IBM
Date: 2014-03-24
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former

Not the kind of IBM I know
Pros: - Good name to your resume
- Pays 75% of your Masteral degree (one of the benefits)
- Work-from-home (Depending to your manager. If your manager is the type who plays according to the book and will do anything for him/her to get a high (PBC) rating, good luck on having this. Luckily for me, my manager sees that giving us 1 work-from-home per week makes us more productive.
Cons: Where should I start...
- Too many kiss-a$$ employees. Maybe this is how they play the game.
- The yearly performance rating is not available to all. There is only a number of people who could get the good points. They don't even consider how complicated or difficult ones job over the other.
- So many unnecessary projects. To get a higher rating (or the biggest salary increase the next year), employees are required to finish a project. If your project is not favored more by the bosses, you get nothing.
- Work-life balance is more like work-life integration. I see a lot of people staying and working for 15 hours. No overtime pay.
- Leave management. I'm not sure about other companies but here, you should forecast your leaves ONE YEAR ahead. I think this is a kind of discrimination against spontaneous people.
- Lower than other companies salary/compensation