Company: IBM
Date: 2016-04-28
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former

Plenty of challenges
Pros: - Cool technology differentiation (eg Watson / Cognitive). 
- Truly global with diverse culture. 
- Strong graduate development program. 
- Good career progression opportunities generally. 
- Women leaders are respected and do well.
- 'Soft' compensation benefits are solid and competitive.
Cons: - Leaders have overlapping responsibilities across multiple functional dimensions. For new offerings and technologies, the number of partners involved in a client or deal becomes distracting (industry, geography, account, technology, sales, consulting, external partner, business unit, etc).
- Can be difficult to navigate for new hires. 
- Compliance is important, but some of the processes and approvals seem just too laborious and even redundant. Proposals often take too long to approve and get out the door.
- Risk averse culture in the ranks.