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Racing towards mediocrity

Advisory Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at IBM for 20 years
December 31, 2012
East Fishkill, New York
3.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros

People are incredibly talented, a diverse workforce in every sense, and opportunities abound on the leading edge of technology.

Cons

Expect to continually be nickeled and dimed to death regarding benefits. The new 401K change is a perfect example. The "roadmap" inevitably means more squeezing of employees via cost cutting, as it is apparent the company is not doing sufficiently at growing revenue to meet their EPS target. The PBC system is terrible for morale, and I say this as a manager who's dealt with it on both sides.

Advice to Management

It will take a massive paradigm shift from the RMAC level downwards before employees are back to being viewed as valuable resources rather than faceless expenses. Once the boomer generation of 25+ years has finally retired, expect turnover to be high, as retention of new hires in the past 10 years has been continually poor.

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