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It was a great place to work. It's really gone downhill in the last year

Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at IBM for less than 1 year
June 11, 2008
Auckland, Auckland
2.0
Doesn't Recommend
Pros

Umm, the good reasons have gone. I am about to start another job after being headhunted.

Cons

IBM has huge, slow processes that often annoy customers. You feel very much like just a number at IBM. They have a great idea of regular performance/career reviews; however, management will not follow up on these. We get fobbed off or commonly told there is no budget for it, so it ends up as just another annual requirement that a manager must tick off without being accountable.

Pay rises of less than 1% annually (even after receiving top-rated annual reviews).

Advice to Management

Don't stop our training when it's promised. Give performance feedback, good or bad.

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