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A good place to start. I would not recommend becoming a 'lifer' with the current direction

Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at IBM for less than 1 year
December 23, 2008
Burlington, Vermont
3.0
Pros

A good place to start. Having your name on a resume opens a lot of doors. Don't stay more than 4 years. Management is really pretty good about giving you time off for family or personal issues. First-line managers really seem to appreciate employees, but they are very limited in their ability to do much for their employees.

Cons

Way too stifling, way too much NIH (Not Invented Here), too proud to realize that other companies are passing them by, too bureaucratic to change what's necessary to turn the boat. Unless you were there through the heydays, compensation is totally inadequate and doesn't even come close to keeping up with competition. (That doesn't change much with organizational advancement, either.) Make sure you get a good salary on the way in; it won't change much, regardless of your performance.

Advice to Management

Make real processes that work and drive them all the way home so they achieve full efficacy and buy-in. There are way too many 'processes' that are just band-aids over the top of an older process that was never removed but didn't work effectively.

People are entirely overwhelmed with 397 different processes, none of which work like they are supposed to.

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