IBM

Great experience, a lot of learning opportunities, top-class customers, private medical insurance, car for higher bands, global teams, and an excellent reputation among employers. This allows you to easily get bank loans and grants, and there's a good pension scheme.

You have to be self-motivated to thrive, so you own your career within the company. Managers focus on sales and numbers above all else, which is understandable, but it might not suit everyone, especially people from purely technical backgrounds.

The market is changing rapidly, so IBM is continuously transforming to respond to those changes. Your very hot job role six years ago is possibly worthless nowadays. Add that to the fact that the company pays the minimum legal redundancy packages. After 10 years of service, you will end up with a £4,790 redundancy package if you did not negotiate a special redundancy package before joining.

News about IBM layoffs has been everywhere, but it applies to all tech workers that you should always take care of your career to make yourself valuable. This highly applies here as well.

I think IBM is treading slowly in the right direction, but this is getting painful for many people. As a reward for the dedicated employees who served the company for many years, and to make it less painful for them, redundancy packages should be more than the bare legal minimum.

Most reputable employers in the UK pay 4 weeks for each year of service with no salary cap.