Company: IBM
Date: 2014-05-08
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Confirmed

Lots of Opportunities if you can stand the Bureaucracy
Pros: If you are looking for a lifetime career you can very well find it IBM. Benefits are good, pay is fair.  It is the rare individual who will "kill it" from a salary standpoint, unless you time it right in sales, or are a GBS Partner.  If you enjoy process overkill with minimal oversight and direction, freedom to shape your role and the opportunity to be involved in a massive team matrix style of management, IBM is an interesting place.
Cons: Surprising the number of "lifers" that are employed/in hiding at this company, many without any experience outside of IBM.  IBM may pride itself on the number of acquisitions and the numbers of "new" IBMrs in the ranks, but those folks quickly figure out the stifling environment and bloated layers of management within the company and realize if they want to do anything innovative they seek roles elsewhere.