IBM

• Remote work during the COVID pandemic

• Low pay
• High turnover rate
• Trained data analyst, but title remains data engineer
• Can't take concerns to management; they will assume quitting is your only option
• 12-hour days depending on your project
• Frequent project hopping
• Projects not always geared towards your skills or career
• In-office management staff separate themselves from employees
• Micromanagement from certain managers
• Raises are low and keep you under average pay until you've reached 4 years
• CICs are located in economically distressed areas for tax breaks. This means although you have a greater number of minorities working, a large chunk of minorities within the greater company are making less than the US average for their job role.

Treat your team members as equals. Respect goes both ways. If someone has a concern, address it calmly and don't assume we want to quit when we're looking for positive change. Push harder to increase wages rather than increasing the number of new hires. Renegotiate tax breaks and offer higher pay to current employees, or develop a program that helps current employees transfer to IBM Corp. It's not practical to expect employees to stay below average pay when counterparts working the same projects are making double in the same field with the same skills.