Company: IBM
Date: 2016-01-05
Overall rating: 5/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Confirmed

Great Company, Fast Changing,
Pros: IBM is a great company to work for if you are are a self starter, go getter and self motivated. There are doing some great work around cutting edge technology such as Cloud, Watson, Analytics, Big Data.  It's a great place to work if you need work-life balance. W3 site is getting better, the new cloud platform for saving big files has become much easier.
Cons: IBM has this concept of Blue pages Manager who are like functional managers. I have had 4-5 Managers in the course of 5 years. Most of them were okay, and have been with the company for a long time but still didn't know the inner workings of IBM, therefore couldn't really help me with career advancement.. My feeling is that they didn't want to make an effort to understand the plumbing inside IBM. My current Manager is pretty good and makes an extra effort to get me all the info re: things I can do to advance my career within IBM,

Medical Insurance sucks. If you want a fully covered plan, it can cost you $1350 per month out of pocket. If you take the high deductible plan, and if you or your family member has to go to hospital or for procedures/Xrays/ MRIs etc. you will get numerous Medical Bills in the mail.