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Great Benefits, but impersonal environment

Quality Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at IBM for 9 years
September 9, 2021
Ottawa, Ontario
3.0
Pros
  • Challenging and rewarding work
  • Excellent benefits
  • Pay is good
Cons

Everyone did their own thing and it wasn't really a team environment at the office or with the group I was with.

It was impersonal and hard to get someone to talk to in person, even for big things with HR.

I was let go after recovering from an injury because student interns took my job.

I was envious of offices not in Ottawa because the coworkers seemed to foster more of a playful, team environment, which wasn't at all my experience at my office.

The workload was often unreasonable. I found a lot of the other employees were stressed and burnt out and afraid of being laid off constantly.

Advice to Management
  • Please value your paid employees more than getting cheap or free interns to take their jobs.
  • Foster a more team-player environment.
  • Make getting IT or HR help more personal and less "press 1 to speak to another robot."

Additional Ratings

Work/Life Balance
2.0
Culture and Values
1.0
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
3.0
Career Opportunities
3.0
Compensation and Benefits
4.0
Senior Management
2.0

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