Company: IBM
Date: 2015-02-03
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former

Not what it once was
Pros: - work from home
- challenging work 
- good people
Cons: - Most people work from home, are across the country or even another country. I never met any of the people on my team in person in 4 years
- Every quarter contractors are laid off or put on furlough meaning the rest need to pick up the workload.
- Work/life balance.You should expect to work evenings and weekends. 
- Pay and benefits are typically lower than elsewhere. 
- Raises have not kept up with cost of living and bonuses are increasingly hard to achieve due to unattainable targets. 
- Many programs to recognize good performance have been discontinued in recent years
- Employee morale is very low. 
- Job opportunities are few and often require relocation
- Many hours of mandatory internal process and tools training regardless of applicability to your job role. 
- The sheer volume of Internal processes and paperwork required to perform your role can be time consuming and overwhelming. 
- Corporate Leadership is focused on share price rather than customer satisfaction