IBM reviews

Lack of job security, disconnect in communications as manager and employees are scattered, hard to focus when no clear objectives defined outside of contract obligations. The raise structure, iwhich is a cost savings for IBM, and does reflect the needs of it employees, it is based on market data from all of North America. It leaves it open for them to always point to an area of the country that is doing poorly and use that as excuse to why they are unable to pay you more money.

Travel is extensive. "Work-life balance" is totally lip service. The only thing that matters to this company is sales and as a result, the only real bonuses go to sales people. Oh yes, and they use forced rankings, which means someone has to fail. I was fortunate enough to always have a high PBC rating (of course not high enough to get any decent bonus though). Raises are a pittance if non-existent. Their approach is flawed. They oversell commitments, even those that we have zero experience with. Their theory is to just throw bodies at any problem, and as such, you will just become a resource. Another number. Another worker. Additionally, you never know when/if you might be layed off. You will have to travel a lot, get little to no salary increase, little to no bonus money, little to no work-life balance.....well at least you get some job security right. Not exactly.