Culture of fear is killing morale and productivity
Pros
If you can survive, IBM offers tremendous opportunity to navigate and change direction within your career. IBM offers great education and training, and internal job changes and growth are expected and encouraged. I myself changed direction with my career four times.
Cons
I have survived many years of layoffs (resource actions or RAs) here at IBM and the frequency, intensity, and number of talented folks released each time has become frightening. It no longer matters your contributions, amount of revenue you generate, your performance, your value, how long (or how short) you have been employed... you have simply become a number. As a result, the once dynamic collaboration, teamwork, and pride in this company have disappeared and most live in fear of the next quarterly RA. Many reviews here on Glassdoor talk about the benefits of working from home and IBM's work/life balance; don't believe it. IBM has recently decided to force most employees to come to an office (sometimes to one hundreds, if not thousands of miles away). IBM is hemorrhaging talent as many scramble to leave before they are forced out.
