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It's not even a company... it's just a manifestation of numbers and the cheapest politics

Advisory Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at IBM for 9 years
February 1, 2015
New York, New York
1.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

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Cons

Even good humans become evil and are driven to act harshly on subordinates. Subordinates are seen only in terms of numbers and not people. There may come a time when PBC would include how many times you say "yes sir" to a manager.

Until the below goes away, IBM shares and all business will not go up:

  • Remove the flawed PBC system through which real good employees are filtered out and race course investors are filtered in.
  • Dismiss useless managers who just parrot out and do not show any originality, for example: "Apples and oranges."
  • Invest more in the hardware business and innovate in that, rather than cloud and other ventures. Instead, these could be given a parallel focus.
  • Either don't acquire more companies, or if you acquire, shut up and bring them up, rather than dissolving them eventually as you don't know how to manage them. At least they were coming up well before acquiring and were helpful to the world. You are destroying them to make up to your numbers. Jesus will not take this for long.
  • Ginni must resign, and a younger and sensible CEO must be "nominated" by people, who would not focus on showing numbers and pocketing numbers.

As of today, IBM feels like a jail and feels like a "PBC exhibition sweat shop" when we get out of this.

Most companies don't prefer hiring IBMers due to the long notice and mostly due to the culture and split jobs that do not give complete bandwidth of experience any job would need.

Advice to Management

Resign and reform afresh. Flush out your PBC system and come up with something more employee-friendly. Appraise your employees and treat them like humans. Reduce the number of people for completing one single job. Hire fewer managers and don't make things driven completely by a manager. Cut down your processes. Reinvent the tools employees work on. Focus more on this aspect to make work more qualitative. Make numbers visible to employees, not just higher management. And make coffee and tea free.

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