Company: IBM
Date: 2017-07-06
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

Rewards don't match the level of effort
Pros: Flexible working is really good and the additional fringe benefits are what you'd expect from a blue chip company.  The day to day team are all bright, hard working and have been great to work with.  The experienced staff in IBM are very skilled, which is an excellent source of knowledge to people at the start of their careers and the initial training and support was excellent.
Cons: Short term management philosophy to cut costs to achieve excessive targets wherever and however possible.  This has led to a heavy reduction in pay rises or appreciation and prevented promotions even for top performers, so this is not a place to stay in the long term if you want to continue to progress or be paid anywhere near the market rate as you rise up the ranks.

With the morale at the lowest it's ever been, there is a lack of social culture in the UK driven by an insatiable need to remove experienced head count and replace with inexperienced offshore resources, with a UK travel ban in force for the whole of 2017 in some parts of the organisation.  

Most people are fearful of keeping their jobs for some years now due to ongoing restructuring, forcing those that stay to absorb the work of 2 or more people, which in turn affects work life balance.