IBM

Co-workers were high caliber, got to learn a lot.

Management is out of touch. They lead you on. If you are not in sales, then you are unimportant. R&D is not respected, especially if you are QA.

Every release, they play the blame game. If a bug gets out, they flay QA, even though team leads reiterate that the product is not ready and needs more time. They do not listen.

Everyone they hire into Watson Health is led to believe they will work with Watson, but the closest they get is using Watson's search algorithm. Bonuses are nonexistent.

Good people leave and are not replaced, which facilitates other attrition, stress, and teams that are too lean.

The first few months I was there, no one knew what to do with me, and I'd sit idle too much, which I hate. There is no spare computer. If your hard drive goes, too bad; you have to send it somewhere and wait. Yeah.

Also, sometimes your IP gets locked out for the day if you're on campus at RTP, so you have to go home to work.

I could go on, but I think this is enough, when coupled with the fact that I went on a week's vacation, got back to discover that the whole wing of seats behind me (a big open agile space) was empty when I returned. Yep, let go...

Stop with the all-hands meetings that are all sales-goal oriented.

I was in R&D and could do very little about the bottom line other than deliver awesome tech.

It gets very hard to clap for the fiftieth time over some dude I don't know who sold a lot of what I MADE.

Give the devs and QA a bone.