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Good place to work if you want a stable environment

Advisory Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at IBM for less than 1 year
July 14, 2008
Austin, Texas
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Pros

Room for advancement, stable company with global opportunities.

Management has gone through a lot of trouble to make sure the HR infrastructure is tailored to helping employees develop their careers. IBM has a lot of talented employees that are easy to reach out to and get help.

Cons

Bureaucracy is almost ingrained in IBM's corporate culture.

IBM is slow to react to changes in the industry.

There are so many parts of IBM that sometimes act independently, or even worse, to each other's detriment.

There is much confusion inside of IBM as to where the boundaries are between groups.

Advice to Management

Understand that the pace of IT is going to continue to quicken, and we can't be on the trailing edge of technology all the time.

IBM has so many products and groups that we can appear disjoint to clients. We need to work hard to erase the appearance of many small companies operating under one logo.

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