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Good, stable, and slow to take decisions

Advisory Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at IBM for 6 years
December 10, 2014
São Paulo, São Paulo
4.0
RecommendsNegative OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros

My salary is around the average.

Company allows you to grow if you work towards it. Lots of good things in IT happen at IBM, mainly cloud, mobile, database, etc.

It is definitely a place to stay in touch with very recent technologies. Benefits are good too. Definitely, Home Office is a major benefit to me.

It is easy to find experts for any IT area, like people that wrote the books you read at school work for IBM. This is awesome!

Cons

Due to its large size, there are tons of processes, even for small things. You are required to take education courses not related to your day-to-day job. Even though there is space to grow, things are VERY slow. The appraisal process is like a pain, and the results are not always clear.

Advice to Management

IBM should start thinking about getting close to end users, not only companies. We should have products like the ones Google or Apple have. The general public has to recognize and think about IBM as a big IT solution provider, not only for their business but for people as well. Getting close to people will make us get close to their business.

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