IBM

Benefits, vacation, smart people, work/life balance (used to be better, but still ok).

No more work from home. Awful management, overbearing management. Firing people and then expecting even more work from a skeleton team than they did from a full team. Poisoned drinking fountains. Only match 401k if you stay through the end of December. Slow to allow change. Disjointed teams with some having no technical skills, causing slow movement and requirements that are not technically possible. Management then blames the technical team for failure. No room for growth or advancement. Layoffs every 3 months with young, old, and new all at the same risk. Unjustified negative reviews are given to justify layoffs. For example, one can get a top review for years in a row and then suddenly a very negative one the next, and that's how they can lay people off with no legal repercussions. Too slow-moving to keep up with current technologies and actually prohibit the use of many of the up-and-coming technologies in the market, severely hindering skill growth. The sinking ship analogy is correct, as they are almost blatantly trying to get people to quit, and it's working. One of the least attractive employers in their segment. Avoid if at all possible.

What used to be a fun, competitive place to work has become one of fear, and people are so overworked everyone is miserable.

Management having to sit in on meetings to avoid an aggressive team lead is ridiculous. Maybe instead of letting people go and having half the team quit, management should address the actual problem.

One person is single-handedly tanking a multi-million dollar product, and the solution is to remove people who stand up and speak out that there is a problem. Other companies in this city are more attractive, even if they offer lower pay, due to the hostile work environment.