Company: IBM
Date: 2017-11-27
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

Big!
Pros: Sheer scale of IBM means there are amazing opportunities to be involved in huge, complex, global, multi-million GBP projects that simply don't exist in most other organisations. 

The benefits are very good and the opportunity to develop your career are endless - if you drive it yourself.

The trick to IBM is making it work for you.....if you can master that, then you can do anything in this organisation, the world is literally your oyster.
Cons: Size of IBM means it's very easy to get lost. It also means there's plenty of opportunity to hide in plain sight so there's a LOT of dead wood and people hanging about but not doing much. The benefits are excellent so this leads to the 'gilded cage' syndrome with many people there only because they can't afford to leave. It's virtually impossible to be performance managed out - anyone not performing just gets moved to another role / area so their manager doesn't have to deal with them.