Company: IBM
Date: 2009-12-13
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current

Managed by the Human Resources department
Pros: Breadth of opportunity across technical fields and geographic regions. Long term careers are possible for the very capable top performers.
Cons: Management are unable to make any decisions themselves. Salary decisions, appraisals and bonuses are all determined centrally in a very impersonal manner. Raise any complaint with management and they empathise and share your concern - but they are powerless to do anything about it. They just say "ask HR".

Promotions are apalling. The way the defined benefits salary scheme has been abandoned in 2009 has been disgusting. Despite not being personally affected I am outraged at how my colleagues have been treated.