Company: IBM
Date: 2013-04-09
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

IBM Research Experience
Pros: Outstanding people to work with. Breadth of technology. Close connection to academia. Opportunities to publish research papers. Reasonable work life balance.
Cons: It is hard to strike a balance between research work and business impact. Mover, as IBM Research does not own any revenue-generating business, it has to get funding from business units project by project, which makes researchers more like short-term contractors and hard to make long-term impact.