Company: IBM
Date: 2016-04-20
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former

Global Communications
Pros: - Brilliant and hard-working people
- Opportunities for women 
- Mentoring program
- Company name opens doors
Cons: - Frequent comment heard when joined, "IBM is like the federal government, only worse," as the bureaucracy and massive PowerPoints seem designed to stop things from happening vs empowering people to make a difference
- If you are entreprenuerial or creative, you won't be happy, nor valued
- Rigid hierarchy
- Fewer growth opportunities due to financial problems (i.e., revenue and profit losses)
- Too many meetings - from am to pm
- Terrible "productivity" tools
- Low employee morale - no work/life balance
- Layoffs needed to make financial targets for stockholders and executives