Company: IBM
Date: 2015-10-17
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

IBM - the slow decline of a once great company
Pros: Good Benefits
Throughout the company, there are islands of excellence. The ability to interact with some truly brilliant people on those islands. I was able to learn a great deal about some technical issues because of the IBM connections in a day or two - it would have taken a month or more, otherwise. There are a good number of individuals at IBM that *really* know their stuff!
Cons: Their review system is a joke. Ratings are predetermined, have less to do with your personal job performance and much more to do with your managers' personal agenda.
Overly bureaucratic. Management is more concerned with checking boxes and CYA than with actual results.
Employees can and do get blamed for issues that are totally outside of their control.
Unstable work environment - the "Resource Actions" will continue, as will the practice of having employees train their low cost, less skilled overseas replacements unless they want to lose their severance packages.