IBM

The benefits are really nice, and the people who do work locally are all very bright and dedicated.

I worked for a company that was acquired by IBM. While IBM has a lot of talented people working for it, it quickly became apparent that as a highly paid engineer at IBM, you are considered a liability. We were actively interviewing engineers in India and Singapore to replace us and were told to expect yearly layoffs.

They delivered on that promise. To say the mood was sour is an understatement. The worst part is the quality of our products suffered greatly, and eventually, there will be no one in the U.S. who actually knows how the software works.

Actually, try and appreciate talent in the U.S. and don't see outsourcing as a panacea that solves all of their problems.