Pros
- Flexible working hours - Can work at home - Some very bright technical staff - Good place to start a career but don't stay any longer than 3 years
Cons
- IBM is eating itself from the inside out with cost cutting to meet corporate EPS targets - Staff education virtually abandoned bar online courses - Gradual reduction in the UK workforce as jobs are transferred to Eastern Europe, China and India. - Staff celebrations are rare and when they happen you have to pay for the food. No different for the 100 year company anniversary. - Pay rises well behind inflation or non existent. Within 3 years of starting, graduates commonly find themselves on less than new grad starters (where IBM has to pay closer to market rates) - Yearly PBC appraisal system demands a fixed number of underperformers to be identified, who must "improve" on some arbitrary measure or face being removed by a separation package. - Plenty of bad blood remaining after various pension measures in 2009 caused many older staff to leave.
