Company: IBM
Date: 2014-08-25
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

Innovative, but not looking after their people
Pros: Amazingly innovative and trend-setting company - unparalleled globally.
Networks of intelligent people willing to share their experiences openly and freely.
Cons: Executive direction and quarter-driven financial model rules the company, and is driving morale into the ground.  IBM Canada leadership doing their best to work within the system, but an impossible task.

It is an impossible situation, publicly debated in many circles, but it is a real problem - how to adjust the approach to people, focus, spend money, make the work environment more pleasant while still making the shareholders happy - at some point IBM will need a "reset" - the pendulum has swung too far.