Avantages
1. A lot of information about most industries is available, provided your project is ready to give you time. 2. Excellent training material available on just about anything, provided your project is ready to pay for it. 3. Some good free training material also available on many subjects. 4. Some old IBMers are real gems in professionalism. 5. Somehow, the brand name still exists. 6. If you are in the higher management, you will most likely be taken care of. 7. Chances to do well if communcation skills are above par. 8. Did not sack too many during the economic downslide. 9. Did not cut salaries during the economic downslide. 10. For women, for now, this is a good organization because they don't usually mess with women and certain facilities like cabs on late stay, prefernce on working from home, etc are available exclusively for women.
Inconvénients
1. Technical skills are being sidelined. 2. Training is difficult to get aprroved because your project has to pay for it and that affects the profits for the project and the manager's commission. 3. The intranet is a wild world and simple searches usually do not work. You may search for a cab in Mumbai and they'll point you to one in Shanghai.