Company: IBM
Date: 2016-02-03
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Good place to make experience
Pros: Exposure to mixed hierarchy and functional teams, truly global organization structure, knowledge to industry standards and serious professionals (among the senior management) to learn from. 

Offices in Central/Easter Europe are getting bigger, more opportunities to come in that area. Might be a good time to start working for IBM, which is also growing on its new key business areas.
Cons: IBM working environment can vary a lot, depending on which country you work in. Our colleagues in Germany, Nordic countries and UK are way more efficient and always get things done, while in Slovakia and other Central/Eastern Euopean countries there are still many organizational issues, which I hope are going to be removed in the near future. The salary is quite low, but there are many opportunities to look around in other departments to build your career.  

Processes are often broken down to very tiny bits, so it can be hard to get the big picture or the overall sense of your work.