Company: IBM
Date: 2015-01-31
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

IBM is full of smart people and the organization commoditizes each and every one
Pros: It's a good place to understand corporate America. It's where you experience how talent is commoditized, measured, and evaluated.
Cons: It this the kind of environment or treatment that creates employee satisfaction? I think not.
The leadership style is primarily based on command and control, which limits the ability to develop a variety of talent and other leadership styles. Command and control is the most common and easiest leadership style to adopt. My advise for leaders who are looking to join IBM is to spend as little time as possible at IBM to develop and experience it in one of the largest command and control companies in the world, and then get out to develop all your other leadership styles that will actually change the world and touch more lives in a positive way. You won't get a chance to do that at IBM, other leadership skills can not be commoditized, thus not rewarded.