Company: IBM
Date: 2013-07-19
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Confirmed

Culture driven by lawyers and accountants.
Pros: IBM Research would be a cool place to work.  Financially stable.  Managers were very accommodating about family life.
Cons: Software group is a very patriarchal organization.  There is no willingness to consider different opinions, consequently IBM has a very low revenue per developer because they can not change or adapt.  IBM has almost no interest in developer productivity and believes that if just imposes enough process on your work, then everything will work out.  Your manager is likely to be a "Yes Man" or a ladder climber as these are generally the people who succeed best in this work atmosphere.