IBM reviews

The last 5-6 years pay increases for experienced, high-performing, staff engineers have not kept up with the dollar increases in the cost of health insurance premiums IBM has passed on to employees. IBM used to be known as a family-friendly company by providing good benefit coverages for families of employees. In the last decade, IBM has shifted the burden of providing insurance benefits for employees' spouses and dependents to the employees without increasing the pay to compensate for the added costs. Compensation and benefit plans are geared toward bringing in young, single, employees at competitive starting salaries who generally only last a few years, while ignoring the dependable, experienced, knowledgeable employees who become stuck in the position of perpetually training the new kids who either wash out or are put on the fast-track ahead of the gray-hairs. The employees who are the backbone of IBM are unappreciated, but often have no choice about leaving because they do not want to uproot their families.

Absolutely incompetent mid-level "puppet" managers. Usually from the Philippines or India these days, so they might as well be outsourced. Poor communication skills and little or no managerial skills.Their daily tasks revolve around shuffling meaningless spreadsheets to being a hindrance to actual technical work or service that the customer actually needs. Contractors do not get overtime pay anymore. They are being forced to take Time off in lieu even though it will not be mentioned in the contract.