Company: IBM
Date: 2015-08-04
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Manufacturing is dead.
Pros: Its a big company with a diverse culture.  There are some very smart interesting people there and it has a great history to be proud of.  Depending in which part you work your experience will vary.  Nice benefits, perks through IBM club, still has a strong future.   The Watson project seems like a very exciting venture.
Cons: Poor compensation.  Many seemingly bad management decisions being made costing the company more money.  Over the past 20 years the value IBM places in its employees has seemed to greatly diminish.  Lots of jobs sent outside the borders.  Hard if not impossible to move within the company.  The bureaucracy one needs to navigate to get anything done is counter productive.  (This is from a manufacturing perspective.  Other parts of the company may be very different.)