Company: IBM
Date: 2018-05-01
Overall rating: 5/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Watson Health is good. Low rating seems to be from old IBM divisions.
Pros: - Less politics. Code code code.
- Build and develop everything from scratch.
- Real impact in healthcare (industry leader in GxP cloud).
- Decent new stacks especially in Big Data area.
- Robust & well-built automation platform.
- Microservice design. 
- Agile & small team.
- Slack, latest macbook series, brand new building, open office.
- Stellar engineers. 
- Many top engineers join Watson Health from other IBM division. This tells a lot.
- Relatively young and new fast-paced environment. 
- The project many times mentioned by Ginni in tech talks. 
- You feel important and have a rewarding contribution.

Feels like a growing startup inside tech giant.
Does not feel like traditional IBM. 
We hate traditional IBM. 
We moved on. 
Join Watson Health.
Cons: - No free food.
- Pay is flat standard in Cambridge - behind G, FB, APPL, AMZ by far.
- Still seeing old-timers IBM zombies with thinkpad and sametime messenger roaming around every once in a while. Frusrating.
- The way we conduct all-hands meeting, review, training, paperworks, at many times are still very old-school despite new engineering tools invested. 

Again, the biggest downside is the IBM general outlook. 
We suffer a lot from this.