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Brilliant Work, Brutal Culture

Chief Technology Officer and Director
Current Employee
Has worked at IBM for 20 years
September 11, 2017
New York, New York
1.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Hardest problems to solve, you learn tons!

World-class customers and the smartest people on the planet to work with.

Ability to move around to many new careers every 2 years.

Cons

NO LIFE, NO PAY, NO SENSE OF COMMUNITY, THREAT OF BEING FIRED EVERY DAY. Constantly changing the compensation rules so they take away from you any profit and bonuses your hard work generated. Most of it is simply unethical!! It has become a mean and selfish culture which uses its "VALUES" only as a way to beat the employees, while management does not live by any of them. Travel rules have become so over burdensome and complex, and just seem to be a way of making the employee pay for as much of the cost of doing IBM business as is legally possible. NO ONE wants to travel for IBM unless you are a manager and are exempt from all this nonsense.

Advice to Management

Start treating the employees like people who you value. We are leaving in droves.

Twenty percent of us do eighty percent of the work, and in the past, you did not care because you were so large it did not matter who left. The twenty percent is down to about ten percent and reducing fast. Better wake up!

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