IBM

Work from home, employer pension contribution of 6% of salary, partial health insurance subsidy, and the opportunity to file patents.

The process and management has had over 100 years to be refined, so everything is by the book, and they have a book for every situation.

Low salaries, long commute, salary reviewed annually (max), annual performance evaluation requires someone to be assigned a score of zero (even in small departments), no overtime compensation, large layoffs, no bonus.

Money is very tight in IBM. This blue chip company is barely keeping above water. They don't pay for the smartest thinkers. Mostly, it's an aging workforce past their prime, just waiting for retirement. Young professionals are not knocking down the door to work here because they can do better at Grand Canal Dock and in the city center. My advice would be to fight for better salaries, as the place doesn't have anything else going for it.