IBM

• Ability to work at home provides some good flexibility.
• Good vacation accrual.
• 401k plan is decent.
• Lots of pre-packaged processes.

Once you reach a certain level in your band, you won't make any more money. If you're a band 8 like me, you're expected to work about 60+ hours a week with no possibility of increasing salary. To increase salary, you need to work 80 or more hours a week and get into band 9 – sell your soul at that point.

Bonuses are a joke – a good bonus for someone that completely killed themselves is about 5k.

Not able to move around like you once were.

Look out, your job may and will be outsourced next.

It's clear in the US that if you want to be in IBM, you will need to be a leader or manager of some type and expect to put in huge hours often.

There is starting to be a fair amount of people leaving too, as wages are stagnant and the job market is picking up.

Not much to say to management, as they are not interested in what you have to say or really even care.

Get 'er done, Jim!