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Flexible but no current strategy

Advisory Software Developer
Current Employee
Has worked at IBM for 20 years
April 5, 2017
Poughkeepsie, New York
4.0
RecommendsPositive OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros

It has been much better recently, with development and management trying to become more agile and using design thinking for the way we work and plan.

No more groups of project managers bugging you for status all the time.

Cons

Although they have gotten better, HR and bureaucracy is a nightmare. I don't want to deal with paperwork and just get back to doing my job. For a tech company, they should be better at automating all our processes.

Also, I'm not sure of the current company strategy. It seems all over the place, trying to pick out whatever will work. They are going in too many directions at once.

There are way too many VPs that I can't even name.

Advice to Management

Pair down how many different areas we go into, and focus on a few that we excel at.

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