Company: IBM
Date: 2015-11-08
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former

Started out Great in 2010 and downhill from there....
Pros: My manager was excellent. My department worked 8-5 M-F only. Benefits were above average and good time off. Dubuque is a small town so you won't have to drive in traffic jams and many of us walked to work. Yes it's Mayberry USA.
Cons: Very unfriendly people. Awkward silences in elevator every day. This center ran data like an assembly line of cars. Many employees left with not enough skills to get a job since IBM pigeon-holes employees into doing one job. Transfers were almost impossible. Raises were slim. Budgets were cut each year from 2010-2014. Layoffs left my dept. from 25 down to 10. Dubuque IA is a boring town. Iowa has 7 months of cold and many many months of grey skies only. This center is down to 200-300 I hear. IBM shafted Dubuque and Columbia MO. Most of these jobs have gone to India now.
IBM is out to protect its share holders. Doesn't care about it's employees.