Company: IBM
Date: 2016-05-19
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Confirmed

Great people, flawed strategy
Pros: Really smart people you can be proud to work with, comprehensive solutions in many areas, high name recognition, global capabilities, decent health & 401k benefits. Company is pivoting to a sensible cloud/mobile/analytics/social strategy.
Cons: Strategy is sensible but late, and IBM  is several years late to market with most offerings.  In the meantime, the older products that produce most revenue are being sold off or starved out.  16 down revenue quarters in a row, and billions have gone into stock buy-backs instead of R&D.  Whittling away benefits (e.g. as of 2014 the 401k contributions are paid at end of year instead of monthly).   Good people are distracted by constant reorgs, layoffs and comp plan changes.