Company: IBM
Date: 2021-02-23
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Swings and Roundabouts
Pros: Large organisation with large name clients, can lead to good exposure.
Very good job security especially for Graduates / Entry-level positions
Some great and very intelligent people work here.
Cons: Pay is very low compared to a lot of other names in the industries IBM operates in.
Operates more as a lose bundle of companies held together under one banner than a true unified company with a single vision and strategy.
Partners often never 'put pen to paper' and are often just using IBM as an easy to get into transitional job before moving elsewhere.
Slow progression of both salary and responsibility.
Currently going through a split and focusing purely on a cloud and consulting model - not sure they will be able to compete with others in these fields.
Lots of bureaucracy as you'd expect with such a large organisation.