Company: IBM
Date: 2018-02-07
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

One of the worst workplaces ever...
Pros: Home office possibility, and if you negotiate without shame, you can reach a quite high salary, because they need you.
Cons: I believe that not the entire IBM is such like this, I can only evaluate the local conditions at the shared service center in Hungary:

There is a huge fluctuation, so they hire almost anybody. When I worked there at least 30 people left our department, which is approximately 30 percent of the required staff. It's multinational company, but most of the foreigners do not have worthwhile work, though they get better salary than the Hungarians, and there is a big difference between wages in the same position with similar experience and knowledge too. No benefits and no bonuses. The working environment is very old-fashioned, poor and bad. There is no money for anything (for example monitor, mouse, keyboard, new chair, but sometimes not even for a post-it...). In many cases, the management do not treat employees as human beings, but as a robot which can be replaced. There are a lot of professionally inappropriate leaders, and the soft skills (leadership, people management, communication, motivation, empathy) are absolutely missing from them. The company is very huge and bureaucratic, so all the processes are slow and ineffective. Work-life balance does not work for everyone, because the workload is very poorly distributed. There are no relevant trainings and zero motivation, and no career opportunities.