Company: IBM
Date: 2011-12-31
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current

Has IBM lost most if not all its historic values it had for its employees
Pros: Good to start a career
Cons: Has IBM lost most if not all its historic values it had for its employees. If you not Indian, and reside in India your future with IBM is risky. IBM has a drive to migrate as much as possible of its work, should it be development, support or any other service, to India all for just an extra buck. Accepted cost is a major driver in any company but if it starts impacting the responsiveness and quality of service to your local clients it becomes a short sited view.
Don’t be a contractor to IBM, or to a company that sub contracts to IBM and depends on IBM for the cash flow in its payroll.
IBM sells itself as a process orientated business. It was decided to move the South African pay-roll department to IBM Turkey. What happened to the South African staff that ran the pay-roll department efficiently for many years? The response was something in the line “We are sorry but we had no choice in moving pay-roll services to Turkey and we have currently no internal vacancies, you have 30 days to find a job internally, we are initiating process”. Well done IBM. The first month’s pay-roll was run from Turkey, employees where paid on time, unfortunately process failed for contractors and sub contractors they only got paid in December. Well done IBM and thank you for the apology that we never received.
December as a contractor: IBM forced the contractors to close their time claims on the 15th of December resulting in a short month and a smaller payment. Contractors were not to concerned since it was announced that pay-roll will run on the 15th of December. Well done IBM and thank you for considering the festive season and allowing us to do some shopping. NOT for contractors. Contractors and Contract houses where still waiting for payment on the 30th of December. Well done IBM thank you for the splendid festive season you gave us not only did you save on the pay roll by doing the cut off early.
IBM’s basic consideration for those that make IBM’s bags of money is lacking. 
Either way, it is not acceptable. IBM wins a lot of good publicity from its generous support to the community. Maybe it has a Jekyll and Hyde personality and beneath all the goodwill, IBM is an under-handed, ruthless blue giant.