Company: IBM
Date: 2012-07-19
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

No focus on employee retention or satisfaction
Pros: Travel reimbursement is easy
Large source of free training material
Convenient corporate card for business expenses
Cons: Corporate leadership has become focused on shareholder satisfaction and profit to a fault. 
Low pay with virtually no possibility for increases. History has shown that annual raises are nearly extinct. Internal employees are not even compensated when moved into positions of higher responsibility and salary grade. IBM expects employees to take new positions at their existing salary and band regardless of the nature of the job role. It is an amazingly ridiculous practice but seems to be deeply ingrained in management. Over worked and underpaid sums it up. 


IBM's goal is to develop its operations in developing nations where cheap talent is plentiful while reducing its workforce in the United States. It is sad that a company that owes its early success to the New Deal is selling out Americans for corporate greed.