Pros: Great place to work with skilled employees, competitive salary, good medical and vacation benefits. Overall, an excellent company to work for.

Cons: Their work performance rating method has changed several times over the years and is based on a standard distribution curve.

Pros: I liked the talented people that I got to work with. You get to work on very interesting projects, and you are allowed to be very innovative if it does not rock the boat too much. The direct management team was also excellent. There were many opportunities to learn new skills.

Cons: I did not like how often first-line managers moved around. New managers appeared every 1.5 years. IBM has been slash and burning its divisions to make short-term profits. The sentiment is that the company is losing its brand, and customers are no longer brand-loyal to IBM due to disappointment. The executive team has been too sneaky, saying one thing and then doing the opposite. Because of this, morale within the company was terribly low. The executives hold the employees to the highest moral values, yet they have not been practicing what they preach. They reduced the 401k match to only happen at the end of the year, claiming they were not reducing benefits. Then they laid people off, and those individuals lost their 401k match for that fraction of the year. They think this does not directly affect the employees who still work there, but it does because it is a breach of trust. People were holding their breath in December, worried they would be laid off and lose the entire year of 401k match.

Pros: Great people, good benefits, plenty of resources.

Cons: Stuck in a rut with many old bureaucratic overheads that cause delays and impact costs not budgeted for beforehand.