Company: IBM
Date: 2015-11-14
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

One of the latest places to do real RESEARCH
Pros: - Research environment, like academia. You finish the PhD and you continue to do what you like most: doing research but getting payed properly!
- Total flexibility
- Open minded environment
- Trust  (they trust you. 100% confidence in you).
Cons: - Sometimes, you are on your own. You have to search for interesting projects and 'sell' them to the other peers. But, isn't that research?
- Lots of bright minds but sometime you feel a 'generational' barriers... You might be discussing with >65yo man who still does research with their own (sometime outdated) methods. Nevertheless, I've to admit that fundamental thinking is much better in these people w.r.t new millenials. We are more focused to the 'trial&error' approach looking for solution because technology is fast nowadays, but they THINK, study and analyze the problem first, before investing in implementation: 99% of the time, they are right. You can learn a lot from them... but it is time-consuming.
- IBM does not provide the great benefits (free meals, massages, etc.) that new young companies are providing to their employees.