IBM

If you are not ambitious and not passionate about your work, if you don't expect much in terms of professional respect, opportunities, or fair compensation, and are fine with being laid off at any time, this might be a company worth considering.

IBM internal performance review rules promote meritocracy. You can work very hard, accomplish a great deal, and still be given a bad or average performance rating just because you were not visible enough to the right people or simply because it was your time to take one for the team.

Most employees I know have given up on trying to improve anything in the products. People are in "survivor" mode – minimum effort for maximum benefit, and don't stick your neck out.

A lot of truly talented technical people have either left on their own or were laid off. People that seem to be staying behind are poor souls that are stuck at IBM for some reason, or those who play internal politics well.

What the hell are you doing? You are destroying this company's future potential for innovation and, in many cases, simply its ability to release and maintain products.

You are treating employees just as resources, without regard for their skills and abilities. Talented people that made this company what it is today retire, resign, or are laid off.

Your new hires, contractors, and global resources have no skills to match people that are leaving. And they will never have those skills because there is nobody left who can teach them. Those kinds of skills can't be obtained in 30 or 60 days either. They take years to develop.