IBM

There is good opportunity to move around in roles and diversify. You don't necessarily need to stick to what you're doing and can grow and diversify your skills.

Agile is supposed to be adopted across the company for a number of years, but it's always been fit into a waterfall model. This means crazy deadlines are constantly being set, and teams are struggling to keep up with the work.

Senior management want to use agile to really drive people and push them to deliver more and more, without ever letting up, and without giving people the chance to switch gears, reflect on what has been achieved, and recharge.

Management are really struggling with attracting the right projects so that they are profitable. This means that every number of months, teams and projects are cut, and people have to try and find themselves a new job either internally or externally.

We are haemorrhaging people across the company, but it's never reported on, since the people are not fired or made redundant; they are left to find a job internally or externally.

People leave because they cannot progress because of the status quo, where you have to do at least 3 years at each level before you can be promoted. It gets to the stage where there is a queue of people waiting to be promoted, and the right person doesn't always get promoted; it's more that they have put in the time.

Try and get some projects that are making money into the Dublin office. At the moment, there are so many that don't make any money, and it's obvious that they are going to get cut. This is just breeding a bad culture on campus.

Change the agile culture so that people get a chance to recharge. There are the mindfulness programs which aren't being really embraced, and they need to be. People are becoming frazzled with the workload.