Company: IBM
Date: 2009-10-06
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current

Exciting technology and culture but not for Americans
Pros: The rate of adoption of collaboration tools internally ( blogs, Lotus Connections , wikis ) has been astonishing and has led to an exciting work culture.
IBM is working on a lot of exciting technologies in a variety of markets.
Ability to work from home is a huge plus
Cons: One of the biggest issues at IBM is the insistence on having a "face to face" role if your position is to remain in the US or Europe.  The emphasis of on off-shoring positions to BRIC countries has been a multi-year effort.  Procurement, HR, payroll, as well as 1st, 2nd, and now 3rd line support are all being or have been moved to lower labor-cost countries.  The message is clear that if you want to have a long tenure in a 1st world country with IBM, you need to be in a direct customer-contact role (e.g. sales, consulting ) otherwise it can be done from a variety of other locations...