IBM

The benefits are good, and the base pay is decent when taking the benefits into account. Other than that, there is not much.

One of the few perks that I do enjoy and would surely miss is that they still have actual offices for the majority of the employees. In a world where everything is cubicle, it is nice to be able to just close a door for a bit to get away from office noise and be able to concentrate on work.

Most folks know the cons: a process for everything, everything is politicized, movement and career advancement is difficult, and the predominant focus now is on offshoring and having to interface with a revolving door of folks overseas.

I see the company deflating its US-based workforce over the next few years by not providing incentives to new/younger employees and letting the older, more established employees leave as their careers end naturally.

Internally, there are a lot of 0-5 years and a lot of 15-20+ year vets. It is the in-between that IBM has failed to focus on and will likely face a lot of issues because of this in 5-10 years' time, when the majority of the vets retire.

Return focus to the employee. Without them, your products suffer and customers will leave. Without a workforce that is well taken care of, the business as it exists today will not survive.