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In 10 years, there won't be any US IBM engineers. All engineers will be "rebalanced" to India

Hardware Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at IBM for less than 1 year
December 15, 2008
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
2.0
Doesn't Recommend
Pros

Management supports working from home.

Good group of people to work with.

Cons

Frequent layoffs.

Gradual shift of workers from the US to India.

Understaffed for the amount of work.

Poor communication from project managers.

Unreasonable project schedules that have just become a joke.

No sense of the big picture; everything is week-to-week survival.

Upper management seems to be only concerned with profit and their stock options.

Difficult to see where you fit in such a large corporation.

Can easily have your first-line manager be in some other geography hundreds of miles away.

Working remotely from the main group can leave workers feeling isolated and lost.

Advice to Management

Having every communication begin and end with profit and how we're not meeting some target gets annoying.

Especially when the CEO cashes out >10 million in stock options every year.

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