Company: IBM
Date: 2010-04-12
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current

Client Executive/Leadership roles are still the most critical for IBM's success, yet paid the least.
Pros: - Flexibility in working from home/office
- Ability to advance career anywhere in the country/world
- Competitive benefits package
- Great company for developing future management talent
- Arguably the best IT company in the world
- IBM's values and its dedication to make their clients happy
Cons: - Promotions are hard to come by when times are tough/tight (MUST have the right sponsor or you go nowhere)
- Salary is kept extremely quiet across the company (in order to control cost and keep everyone in the dark), hence a varied pay scale regardless of talent level
- Very big company with a very big company feel - one can get lost easily within IBM
- Difficulty keeping young talent due to unwillingness to pay for it and invest in it
- Some view IBM as now run by the accountants and only listening to Wall Street vs. employees