Company: IBM
Date: 2015-11-19
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current

Great company, hard culture shifts
Pros: I love that I get to work with some of the smartest people in their respective industry. I work on a great small team that allows me to be creative and do things on my own. There are tons of opportunities to shadow people, take on stretch assignments and learn about other parts of the business without having to leave... it's very easy to make a big career change and most of the time it's encouraged. Compensation in my field is unmatched anywhere else. Also, the flexibility to work from home is a plus.
Cons: It's very difficult to get groups to follow cultural changes. A lot of IBMers have been around for a long time, and to get them to change the way we do things is like moving a glacier. I will say that there are great efforts IBM is trying to change, but it really is impossible to make any sort of change until upper management steps in... and even that takes a long while.