Comment Re:stats (Score 1) 235
Agreed -- I left in 2008 because it was painfully clear that despite good performance reviews and two promotions, my raises over 7 years amounted to inflation, plus the two bumps at promotion (a total of 15%). IBM wants to pay everyone below upper management an average salary, no matter how much better than an average job they do. It's entrenched in their compensation model and no first-line manager can do anything about it for his/her best employees. Every time someone is paid above the average for their band it's a constant battle to get them even cost-of-living adjustments, since they're above average.