Company: IBM
Date: 2013-08-29
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

A good start, but not a place to stay forever
Pros: It's a nice company to start your career, it has a wide range of positions and departments. And you get to overlook the whole IT market from an interesting perspective. There's always some research going around. The collaboration tools work most of the time, and the people are nice.
Cons: You wonder how can some critical business things be done manually or in an excel sheet in an technology company. Depending on the department you are, even if you do well on performance evaluations, you're still stuck on your career with nowhere to go and no raise in salary. First line managers are mostly unprepared for the position they're in. Salaries are way below market and benefits like home office, is arbitrary on some departments.