Company: IBM
Date: 2015-02-04
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Once was proud of working at IBM - now it's a toxic environment of layoffs, benefit cuts, poor morale.
Pros: With over 30 years experience here, about the only thing that still falls into the realm of PRO is decent flexibility for remote workers.
Cons: In the last decade, internal education classes have gone from best of breed to non-existent.  Benefits have been cut across the board.  The PBC ranking has gone from a reasonable performance-based system to just a curved ranking system to build the next layoff candidate list.  Very few raises, little opportunity for internal advancement.  And finally, a petty cost management system that's reached the point where employees must not only supply their own office supplies, but their own monitors and keyboards too.  IBM provides one laptop and charger, which are now on a 4 year replacement cycle.