Company: IBM
Date: 2012-10-16
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

Regret having worked for IBM
Pros: -Overworking means that you're able to learn a lot of new things: I'd think 1 year at IBM is equivalent to ~2 years at another company: experience-wise
-Exposure to Customers and designing customer solutions
-Flex time, Can work any time you want.
Cons: -Complete Lack of Respect for Employees by Management, No loyalty to employees
-Unrealistic exceptions for EPS/Profit that when failed to meet, is then used as excuse to mistreat employees.
-Long work hours for no benefit.
-Unedible cafeteria food.
-Less Pay:  I actually didn't feel like I 'wanted' more money, but the job I took after IBM paid >30% more than IBM.
-Currently very low morale: In the last 3 years or so all the 'water cooler' talk and been negative and depressing.
-Lack of long term friendships:  Because of all the turnover and layoffs and moving around people, 100% of my friends had since come and gone.
-Embarrassing to say work at IBM.  Because of all the Cons, it got to a point where it was embarrassing to say I worked for IBM when speaking with neighbors.