Company: IBM
Date: 2015-07-30
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Constant employee layoffs hurt the company
Pros: There are many smart people and most are wonderful co-workers.  There can be a wide variety of opportunity, but it is harder to move around than it was in the past.  Benefits are decent. Working from home is open to many and it is great for balancing work and life.
Cons: Constant layoffs, called "resource actions" hurt the company performance and kill morale.  There is no opportunity for mature employees to move to another assignment, once they have been tagged in a resource action.  Older workers are not wanted.  The performance review system is a total lying farce.  Employees do not get an honest evaluation of their performance. Workloads can be very heavy requiring  much overtime  for extended time periods.  Pay raises, at least for older workers, are almost non existent.  US workers are being replaced by foreigners working here on H1B visas.