Pros: Great industry experience, as well as giving back and learning opportunities.

Cons: Large company, so it can be difficult to shine out from the crowd.

Pros: Comfortable workspace and able to learn.

Cons: Hard to get promoted or get a salary rise.

Pros: Good opportunities to get out and about, if you are in the correct role and have funding (almost impossible currently). Surrounded by plenty of smart people. Ridiculously good-looking locations. IBM still looks good on a CV. Plenty of opportunities to move around the portfolio and also change job role. Shows hope of changing for the better.

Cons: Disappointing IBM-wide culture; few willing to adapt to changes in the industry. Some employees respond to stack ranking by undermining others. New products are behind, out of touch, and still do not focus on the end user. Massively out-of-touch marketing efforts scare developers from IBM's latest products. Disappointing and insulting graduate and intern hiring schemes. Poor or no on-boarding process for new hires. Incorrect and disgraceful processes in places. Employees are frequently prevented from working by individuals on irrelevant, box-ticking power trips. Auditability over usability. If you care about working at pace with good tools, go elsewhere. Lots of IBM skills are useless outside of IBM; many find it hard to jump out of the company. Death by PowerPoint/conference call is frequent.