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New York, Armonk: Oldies need to leave IBM!

Advisory Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at IBM for 20 years
June 19, 2019
Foster City, California
1.0
RecommendsNegative OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Very talented and smart people, an amazing collection of technologies, an ocean of opportunity to learn technology, a great culture, and work is more of fun if you live for technical challenges.

Cons

New York, Armonk, oldies and CFO killing the company. Imagine they were able to frustrate Warren Buffett, who dumped IBM stock. IBM execs are more focused on stock buybacks and financial engineering to manipulate quarterly results than actually giving control to a new generation of smart folks.

Ginni and her gang would drown this company soon. They need to leave, with all the millionaire execs sitting in New York, and some smart young executive from outside IBM needs to come in to change the top management layer.

Advice to Management

Fire all the execs in New York and get a CEO and new team from outside the box thinkers. Maybe someone from Silicon Valley to change direction, someone like Satya Nadella.

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