Company: IBM
Date: 2008-08-29
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former

Find a niche and it could work for you - but stay out of the politics if you can.
Pros: Plenty of opportunity to find a role that suit's your strengths.
Empowered to act, within reason, to achieve your objectives.
Nice working environment; well furnished offices, good canteens.
Reasonable understanding of the need for work / life balance.
Good benefits; car, health, pension plan.
Opportunity for travel and entertainment.
Oh and the money isn't bad either!
Cons: Politics. There's a lot of game playing and power struggles - to prove one's worth.
Too much time needed to promote oneself amongst one's peers and managers.
Death by PowerPoint. Torture by Excel.
Lotus Domino.
Projects that go nowhere.
Too comfortable - easy to becomne complacent.
A place where bad performers can hide.