Pros: Opportunities to move around within a global organization (they actively encourage technical staff to consider moving to China, India, or Africa). They encourage patent invention and intellectual IP.

Cons: They have lost their way. Senior management encourages a message of "client first." Yet they have slashed staffing to way beyond the ability to create, deliver, market, and train products of quality to their customers. Research and engineering employees who truly believe in doing a great job no longer have the ability to do so. IBM is aggressively moving towards cloud/big data technologies but is trying to do so with little investment. "Do more with less" is fine and sometimes a reality. But "do more with less" for years, with less benefits and no work-life balance, is not sustainable.

Pros: 3 weeks vacation (starting) Decent compensation Good people on the lower levels

Cons: Terrible upper-level management. Constant layoffs (three rounds in the 10 months I was there).

Pros: A good company to work for. It has a lot of interesting people working for them.

Cons: Moves kind of slow and is not always easy to get things done.