IBM

Instant brand recognition with customers, easy to get in the door. A wealth of support, development, and management resources available. Clearly defined career paths; management encouraged to help with this.

It is easy to get lost in such a massive organization.

Yearly review process is set up so that somebody on the team must get a low mark, regardless of work output.

Very difficult to get raises. Negotiate a salary you'll be happy with for a while.

Try to spend time at least on a monthly basis coaching employees about career goals and paths to achieve these.

Create clearly defined work objectives that can be attained and used to measure performance.

Seek to have at least bi-weekly team meetings to encourage a sense of "ibm family" for remote workers.