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Wandering Headless Dinosaur

Senior Advisory Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at IBM for 4 years
May 27, 2021
Paris, France
2.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Salary above market. Lot of advantages. Many days of vacation. Very good technical teams, which allow a lot of personal growing up. Lots of education and training opportunities.

Cons

The company is totally lost. There is no real direction; it's basically a fight pit for higher-up execs competing for influence, power, and money.

Meanwhile, there are no real technical nor business directions. Projects are started and stopped on a whim, companies bought and resold like collectible cards, departments fused or separated because why not?

The business model is utterly obsolete. As a developer, there is no contact at all with customers or even practical usage, if they are any, actually. It sure doesn't seem like it.

Day-to-day work on customerless projects without any clear use case seems utterly senseless and devoid of any meaning.

Additional Ratings

Work/Life Balance
4.0
Culture and Values
1.0
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
2.0
Career Opportunities
3.0
Compensation and Benefits
5.0
Senior Management
1.0

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