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Interesting work, high pressure

Senior Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at IBM for less than 1 year
July 19, 2016
Austin, Texas
4.0
RecommendsNeutral OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

The amount of technology information available to IBMers is staggering. There is a plethora of directions to take your career if you want to change directions while there, and IBM management encourages you to move around if that's what you want.

They have also been on a years-long acquisition binge that provides constantly new fertile grounds for review and possible exploitation.

Cons

Middle management often does not listen to first-line management about what is going on in the trenches. This leads to some glaring inefficiencies.

IBM will take as much as you can give (nothing wrong with that to a point), but they will not think about how that is affecting your life – EVER! (Well, your immediate manager might, but likely will be helpless to do anything to ease the pressure).

IBM seems to be on a slow road to ruin where cost-cutting is concerned. Over many years, they have repeatedly demonstrated that the employee is not that important, reducing or eliminating one perk/benefit after another. Now, standard severance pay is one month!

Advice to Management

Your operations might go a bit smoother if you listened to first-line management before making sweeping decisions.

How many consecutive declining quarters has it been now? Get rid of Ginni!

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