Company: IBM
Date: 2019-06-03
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

Consider what you value in an employer carefully and your ability to deal with challenging situations and  leadership.
Pros: The colleagues you will make on a  global scale will be some of the most committed and talented people you will ever meet and extremely pleasant leading to many new friendships. 
Remote working and flexibility if within the right team dynamic and leadership can be very beneficial.
Great company  for those who are technologically minded.
Excellent opportunity to work on a global scale in many job roles and gain invaluable experience.
This is a great organisation to work within  if you come in with  a strong mindset to create your own opportunities to learn and develop yourself and plan for the future advancement of your own career elsewhere after gaining relevant experience here. In summary, be prepared to work hard and remember to make the company work for you at all times as much will be asked of you.
Cons: Poor technology within the  company to work with each other as often very unreliable making day to day performance of your role challenging at times.
Personal experience has been that there was little room for career growth through hard work and success, very politically minded senior and mid  management and at times a handful of colleagues who would rather focus on this, rather than developing their own abilities and performance as it was a behaviour that was often rewarded.
Culture of fear the last decade due to very little job security can be very stressful for those who are not positive and confident individuals who believe in themselves - this company is not for the fragile.
If it is important to you to feel genuinely valued for your contributions and  loyalty then in my experience,  you do need to be very strong minded and vocal to ensure this and it may still be difficult if working under the wrong leadership - again not for the gentle.
Pay rises from initial salary agreed can be hard to improve upon regularly and unfortunately it is not your performance and success that influences these rather than playing the corporate game and building your own niche, so for those who are more naive and/or not interested in this then this is not the right environment for you yet again.
I have witnessed some very unfair ratings given to former colleagues who were stellar examples of professionalism and were also then made redundant -  which did a lot to focus myself many valuable staff on moving onto an environment more suited to our personal morals and to address our concern at the vast amount of experience and talent leaving the organisation one way or another.