IBM

• Foot in the door with a large corporate tech company; resume booster
• Opportunities to learn and get certified
• Networking opportunities
• Some really good projects. A good project will make you very marketable for future projects due to connections made.
• Respectable amount of vacation time and benefits
• Rapid promotion structure, decent raises (5-12%), sometimes bi-annually
• Great peer group

Management seems very disconnected from market needs/growth.

Certifications are pushed from management; however, you will rarely get put on a project to utilize what you've learned. They are accolades for management.

A consultant shop. Management cares to staff projects, though not necessarily in your best interests.

Well underpaid. Raises seem great but don't affect much being well under the national market's pay scale for software developers.

Confusing management structure that constantly changes.

Apprenticeship program is well-done in terms of the learning curriculum, but not in experience.

Certain development practices are severely undervalued.

No 401k match until 2 years of service.

Take care of your people.