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Flexible workplace, but not the greatest pay or hours

Advisory Hardware Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at IBM for 9 years
October 25, 2012
Poughkeepsie, New York
3.0
RecommendsNeutral OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros

Pretty flexible work times, except if you have to work with IBMers overseas. You have to use your personal hours, dinner/breakfast time, to be on calls with different time zones. No personal time is available anymore.

Work comes in waves. When it's busy, it's really stressful.

We are finally starting to hire some new hires and new blood into the company. Still pretty top-heavy and hard to move up.

Cons

It seems like our budget for anything is smaller and smaller every year, even when we are reporting record profits. Healthcare benefits aren't great, with a lot of out-of-pocket costs. They are outsourcing a lot.

Advice to Management

Our management, up to the 3rd line, is doing the best they can.

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