Company: IBM
Date: 2015-04-27
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former

Valuable experience
Pros: Unique opportunity for research within a semi-cooperate environment, where projects range from fundamental research to product prototype/proof of concept.

Colleagues are world class researchers with very diverse background and always happy to chime in with their expertise.

I was grateful for the choice of using gnu/linux on the company laptop. The facility was top-notch, especially the cafeteria --- if it wasn't for the early closing time (16:00), then again one could argue that this is done in order to promote healthy work-life balance. ;)
Cons: IBM is truely a venerable company. Unfortunatly this implies that there is a lot of regulation for various things. While I felt that in Resarch a lot of effort is being made to circumvent this, the sheer size of the company can be felt in the amount of rules and regulations.

However, once I was accustomed to said regulation did not bother me as much as in the beginning.