IBM

IBM is an international giant with more than a century of experience, and it shows. It has the infrastructure to provide lots of learning resources. It also has very competitive salaries and benefits. It's a great place to settle in if you want a rock-steady employer.

There are many learning opportunities but very few chances to apply them. It's hard to push new technologies to be implemented because client pressure is always high, and getting a promotion is difficult to the point where it becomes easier to move to another job and get rehired in a higher position later. There is also a lot of baggage and bureaucracy that comes with huge and old companies.

For example, they started implementing a back-to-office mandate, which affects all of the workers they hired during the pandemic who might need to relocate to a really expensive city like Guadalajara. In Guadalajara, the company site is located way outside of the city, meaning you waste up to two and a half hours commuting to and from the office. Mandating a return and reducing the workers' quality of life is a completely tone-deaf move by an administration that clearly doesn't have the workers' well-being in mind.

Company policy acts like they care about employee wellness, but they don't seem to really look after promoting meaningful change. Like more flexibility on remote work or chances to promote innovation to actually be implemented. I suggest trying to actually do things instead of only talking about it.