Company: IBM
Date: 2008-06-13
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current

I have a dream!  Then the alarm goes off.
Pros: The company has a huge number of fingers in lots and lots of different pies and there is the potential to move around within the company to avoid stagnation.
Cons: Reality never lives up to promises. Continual trimming of resource to make projects more efficient means   frequent unpaid overtime required and eliminates the possibility of doing more interesting work in favour of maintainance cycles and at best, minor incremental improvements. Worst of all, even where there is scope for improving efficiency to help mitigate these problems in later cycles there's no time available to implement it.