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If getting rich is your goal, IBM is not the place to be

Advisory Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at IBM for less than 1 year
June 29, 2011
Raleigh, North Carolina
3.0
Doesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Lots of smart people to work with; they are top-notch in their technical skills.

Working on the latest technologies makes getting up in the morning to go to work a worthwhile endeavor.

Cons

Overall treatment of employees needs to be improved. We are certainly not "interchangeable parts." Lack of pay raises because one has reached "50%" of market penetration is a joke. One wonders who they survey to reach that conclusion.

Advice to Management

A forced bell curve for appraisals is a quick way to kill enthusiasm for working at the company. When it becomes "just a job," you will have high turnover because people can be treated the same way for more money elsewhere.

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