Company: IBM
Date: 2016-05-23
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Steer Clear
Pros: Some positions allow for telecommuting or a flexible work schedule.
Cons: There is very low employee morale due to the regular Resource Actions (RAs).  Many employees have been living with the threat of being RA'd for over 10 years.  Even those who are safe don't feel safe.  

Anyone who has been RA'd now has to deal with an unethical company who wants them out, no matter what experience they'll be taking with them.  Even if you have a project or group who wants you, HR will not approve the transfer.  They have job postings that are put on hold and/or canceled and then reopened.  They have hiring freezes in place within most of the organizations.  They regularly tell the media they have 20-25k jobs to be filled, but a look at their jobs database shows a different, much lower number.

All levels of management have repeatedly ignored the concerns raised about the work performance of the less qualified and less experienced offshore resources.  Depending on the group, most US workers regularly have to correct the mistakes done by their offshore counterparts.  Some offshore resources don't even attempt to complete their work and the US workers feel like they have to step in so deadlines are met.

The company continues to take advantage of H1-B visas, usually at the expense of their US employees.  Raises for non-management level employees are little-to-none most years and the same goes for bonuses.  Utilization targets are high and, to meet them, people have to regularly work more than 40 hrs/wk.  Vacation and annual training requirements detract from your utilization.