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Incompetence brought to high levels, projects brought to a crash state intentionally, and the l

Senior Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at IBM for 9 years
March 26, 2022
Bucharest, București
1.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Which Pros?

Pros: None

Professional People? No.

Incompetence brought to high levels. Projects brought to a crash state intentionally, and the list is open for the Big Manager upstairs to add more. This manager has no idea what coding is and can add more to the list.

I can work from my couch, but I cannot know for a fact for how long because they are not capable of defining work from home as an official, definite choice of working for the employee.

Cons

Unpredictable, disastrous changes.

Inexistent management when everything goes well, and incompetent, useless management when they need to act and do their actual job.

You cannot change projects. Very old technologies. People stuck in the past.

Management works with Germany and acts like puppies in front of their lack of skills, task planning, project announcements, and so on.

No performance bonuses.

No time paid for extra hours. They force you to participate in a Business Conduct Guideline course every year, where you have to state that you are always claiming what is correct, and they force you to claim only 8 hours per day.

Incompetent HR that forces you to do tasks that they should do.

HR allows rehiring of people who were previously raised to HR.

HR allows promotions of big managers to higher levels, even though they know what is happening in the local IBM headquarters.

Projects in Romania are usually coordinated by friends of higher management who lack social skills and have anger management issues.

Higher management takes care that nobody "sees" their friends' issues and covers their tracks while throwing entire teams on fire when needed.

Advice to Management

Get your two neurons working back together.

Can't wait to hear about the lawsuits that are expecting you.

Additional Ratings

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

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