Company: IBM
Date: 2014-10-28
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

This Ain't Your Father's IBM Anymore!
Pros: Wide variety of job opportunities, if you are one of the lucky ones to still be employed by "Big Blue."
Cons: The company seemed to have a policy of shedding as many US jobs as possible, and replacing the lost jobs with overseas or contract workers.  My job was "sold" to a foreign company, but I still was expected to work just as hard or harder, with fewer resources.  Despite being one of the top-rated employees, I received a total of 2.5% raises over a 3 year period. The DBPP was discontinued so executives could see their stock options soar in value, replaced with a far less generous defined contribution pension plan. If you wanted to take an opening in another location, IBM would not compensate you for the move. I was expected to work weekends at least once a month, without "comp time" off. Policies were geared to the "politically correct," and if you held traditional values, you were not part of "the team," and your promotion chances were nil.