Company: IBM
Date: 2015-09-13
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Program Director - Offering Management
Pros: Flexible works schedule with majority of US employees working from home.  Excellent first-line & second line management.  Extremely bright workforce, with a true passion for customer success.  Strong focus on leading edge technology.  Very easy to move across the various business lines into new roles.  Pay seems to be above industry averages.  Strong corporate values and customer focus.
Cons: Senior executive management (GM's, SVPs, Cxx) are somewhat disconnected from the lower level workforce and are in a constant shuffle to advance their careers at the expense of the business. Work-life balance is a challenge due to the routine shifting of business priorities, resulting in a large churn on project workloads.  Internal promotions are secondary in order to support acquired workforces.   Forced distribution of annual performance ratings creates motivation issues for a large percentage of the workforce.