IBM reviews

It is a huge place dominated by bureaucracy, office politics and lack of transparency from management. There is almost too much technology -- through acquisitions, legacy and research, not to speak of assets developed by IBM services, it has created an unwieldy and vast number of products, technologies and components that make it difficult to move quickly. What makes it frustrating is that there is innovation happening but IBM makes it difficult to take its own assets to market effectively

Management is just plain incompetent at all levels. You'll never get a decent raise. They expect you to work 80 hour weeks in most cases. You'll get no respect from any level of management and in many cases clients are so fed up with IBM that they are just waiting for their SLAs to expire and then they go with someone else. I've seen it happen over 8 times in the last 5 years. It is absolutely appalling.