IBM

Work from home opportunities and flexible schedules for programmers.

Fortune 1000 companies run IBM computers.

The world as we know it could not exist without the Mainframe.

The company is driven solely by Earnings Per Share. The business is a financial house of cards.

Employees are considered a commodity, and the company is focused on replacing expensive senior skills with inexpensive entry-level skills.

There has been a major shift of employees from the US to overseas since 2000.

US headcount has decreased every year and is now 50% of what it was in 2000. US employees are now estimated at less than 20% of the company in 2013.

US employees continue to be laid off and furloughed every year, even with $99.7B revenue and $16.4B income in 2013.

There is no job security, and the official policy is average pay. Most US employees have had no raise of any sort in 2-3 years.

Give up the absurd 20xx Road Maps and look to invest in the future.

Remember that employees are your most valuable asset, not a commodity.

"We have always believed in IBM that our most important asset is our people and so we have followed a basic principle of trying to hire, train and keep the best possible people." – TJ Watson, Jr.

Unfortunately, this is no longer true.