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Epitomizes the worst of the worst in management history!

Advisory Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at IBM for 20 years
June 14, 2013
1.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Really smart co-workers, good people to work with.

Used to be a great place to work, grow, and retire from.

Cons

No respect for the employees.

Constant layoffs (under the radar most of the time by doing roving 'resource actions' across divisions).

Things are starting to hit the fan. Look at the latest numbers posted for this latest round of layoffs (June 2013) at allianceibm.org.

They won't give you a 401K match unless you are an employee on the books in December. That is, you work all year, and if they get rid of you before December, you lose the 401k match.

They've gotten rid of so much talent that customers are suffering in a bad way. If you work there, you are subjected to firefighting at a scale unseen before.

Advice to Management

Upper management should be replaced. They have no morals.

They talk about their roadmap to 2015 for the stock, but everyone calls it "roadkill 2015." At this rate, they are killing the company.

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