Company: IBM
Date: 2016-10-06
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Can I give 0 stars? Not an option?! WHY!?
Pros: I REALLY have to think about this one... I guess they offered me a better salary than my previous employer. BUT ITS NOT WORTH IT.
Cons: - expect me to work 24/7! every day if i dont answer a call at 7am when they randomly call me (east coast folks) out of blue, then i'll be in trouble; i have to start working around 8am daily and end after 7:30 (when they let me go home) and on top of that, they'll ask me to finish some tasks by the night so that they can review it in the morning and start harassing me  at 7am again. 
- they advertised themselves as "a startup within a big company" and hence expect me to work overtime ALL THE TIME, but guess what, i put in "startup effort" but enjoys NO "startup benefits"
- average age of the employees here are probably my grandpa age; i had a class of about 25 people in my new hire onboarding orientation, and there were only 4 people with age less than 30, 4 more less than 40, and the rest probably all above 50! NO energy in the office whatsoever. I don't see ANYONE in the offices. It's always empty.
- I have NO personal life anymore. if im offline for 15 min, my team lead will text me "where are you?" and if i tell her "im on the road" she'd ask me "where are you going?" and omg "i'm going to office!" and if i have to get offline around 6pm, i have to tell them WHY, and what im doing at night! 
- even on weekends they'd email and text and call me to tell me to do work. and after i turn in, they'd tell me to change something again. 
- no culture whatsoever; no support groups, no sense of community. this REALLY is a place where you just come to work and get paid and GTFO.
- my project lead has two sided (sounds nice on email since its written but rude on the phone), easily offended (even when i am not trying to), and pretentious.
- the leads are not experts in the subjects but they pretend to be with an attitude like they are the one who actually know everything. if i ask them a question they cannot answer, they'll get offended. i (as well as the people attending our meetings) can clearly tell that they dont know what they are talking about!
- medical benefits are so expensive! $100/mo with high out of pocket limit.
- 401k contribution match WONT happen unless you work there for at least a year. WHAT?!
- stock is only 5% off. wow. other companies are like at least 15% off on average!
- this list is getting too long... i dont want to type anymore.