Company: IBM
Date: 2015-10-03
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

It may actually ruin your career
Pros: I got to work from home.  My manager did not bother me.  If you are a tech poser this is a great place for you.  You get simple repetitive tasks where the good and bad tech resources get the same review and raises. Your goal should be to retire here but the threat of layoff every 3 months is stressful.
Cons: If you are a serious tech nerd and find out that your employer got acquired by IBM you need to do your best to find a new job before you get transferred to IBM.  There are very few tech standouts in IBM.  What IBM will do is bring you in and tell you that your job will be the same.  Then they will slowly start taking away your responsibilities, especially any specialized skill that allowed you to bring value and job security. By the end of the second year at IBM you will find yourself in a role that anybody can do with minimal training.  If you decide to stay at IBM for a couple more years then you are stuck there.  After 4 or 5 years at IBM how can you go on an interview and try to explain that for the last several years all you did was patch servers and install operating systems?