Company: IBM
Date: 2013-06-18
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Confirmed

Hardware business increasingly being marginalized by higher-margin services
Pros: IBM still has some of the world's best engineers, and we have access to cutting-edge technology.  Work-life balance is excellent.  Compensation is decent.
Cons: Our new CEO, Virginia Rometty, seems to have no vision for the future of the company.  She's a manager, not a leader.  The semiconductor business, where I work, is increasingly being pushed aside in favor of IBM's higher-margin services business, which is itself increasingly moving to India.  Working in semiconductors has become mostly an exercise in cost-control rather than innovation.