Company: IBM
Date: 2016-01-25
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

Server Engineer
Pros: IBM was great when I first started in 2005. It wen down hill 3 years later.  Good health care benefits. The only thing that made me stick around was I had a great manager.
Cons: Constantly outsourcing. Have to hand hold India staff. No accountability for offshore staff and their inability. No work life balance. Upper management constantly trying to work exempt staff 60 hours a week. Pay raises and/or bonuses are years apart if you get one. IBM focused on doing the least amount of work possible for the contract. They don't supply the software/tools to do the job. Only way to get tools is if it was freeware. There was no career path. I was stuck doing the same thing for years and losing my skill set. Getting cut from IBM was the best thing that ever happened with IBM. I attended 2 training classes in the 10 years I was there. And that was in the fist 3 years before it fell apart.