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Staying unique in a huge corporation

Band 8 Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at IBM for less than 1 year
June 11, 2008
Boston, Massachusetts
5.0
RecommendsNo CEO Opinion
Pros

Working with really smart people. Having the flexibility to work from anywhere. Ability to write my own job description. Ability to be an individual.

Cons

Bureaucracy PBCs Bureaucracy Yes, that's pretty much all I have to say. I think bureaucracy sums it up pretty well, and in an international corporation of over 300,000 employees, I suppose it's pretty difficult to get away from the problems of bureaucracy.

Advice to Management

If you really think this is one company, get it to work like one. Why are there different standards for different brands?

Why are there different brands?

Why not just have it all be IBM?

Cross-brand integration and consistency is a huge problem. Why isn't this being tackled at the corporate level?

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