IBM reviews

They expect you to work 12-15 hours a day and have no life to meet unrealistic deadlines. Management does not care how employees feel and tell them "you are lucky to have your job". Everyone is always afraid for their job as their is awlays another impending future layoff. IBM's long term plan to to lay off more and more US based employees and move those jobs overseas as much as possible. There are essentially no raises anymore and no upward career path.

In looking at any position within IBM one must evaluate whether the position has requirements to exist where ever you are located. Ongoing cost cutting efforts may well eliminate your position or ship the position offshore (in the long term). There are annual efforts to reduce the bottom n% (5-15%) of low performers acrosss the company. If you are in a team of superstars, the team will loose their assigned percentage - regardless of the impact. In order to achieve continued growth, the company buys a lot of smaller companies. If you are working in an area of the business that has been enhanced throough a purchase, you risk being cast aside once the new venture comes on-line.