Pros: Great support Great training Many opportunities

Cons: Average pay for this sector

Pros: A wide range of stuff to work on, interesting problems, and decent early-career opportunities.

Cons: Directionless management, far too many people getting high on their own supply, and the slow gutting of company assets (and business units) to pay out dividends.

Pros: IBM is still a hub of truly cutting-edge research, and applying that research is legitimately exciting. If you find the right area to work in, I think it's a great, highly stable company to work for.

Cons: IBM as a whole feels like an archaic monolith, constantly making silly blunders trying to be competitive in markets where others have already succeeded. Teams that are tasked with trying to chase competitors end up being laid off, and the company burns a huge amount of resources (and good faith) on such efforts. Almost none of IBM's products/services feel like market leaders (there are, of course, a couple of exceptions), and the company doesn't seem to have much aspiration to be a market leader. It just doesn't have the right culture or leadership to do so.