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IBM has many advantages and much potential, even with its weaknesses

Senior Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at IBM for less than 1 year
June 18, 2008
Austin, Texas
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Pros

Fantastic breadth of opportunity to either expand depth of knowledge through research or scope of experience by working on a variety of projects.

Cons

Understanding that things take longer in a large organization, and there are lots of processes that need to evolve quickly, becomes a challenge. This requires patience and urgency in large quantity at the same time.

Advice to Management

Communication is key. It's not just about more, but better and specifically more efficient.

All business processes should be diagrammed at an appropriate level. Not all has to be known up front, and one size does not need to fit all.

What should be there is a relationship map between different processes and well-described business value for each process (that's being implemented) and each team.

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