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Brilliant Colleagues, Terrible Management

Senior Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at IBM for less than 1 year
June 5, 2010
2.0
Doesn't RecommendDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Friendly colleagues if you are lucky. Some are really brilliant but working on very low compensation packages.

Cons

There is no transparency at all between the senior management.

They have such bad management that it's really difficult to survive. The leads are given overall powers, and the project manager is only concerned with the emails he receives. Apart from that, he looks into nothing and completely depends on leads who are really freshers in management fields, and some are even freshers for the process for which they call themselves leads.

Poor management makes the whole environment so negative that the whole productivity goes down.

Senior management doesn't look into the competency of the employees; they look at how much they accept every single bit of politics played by them.

I will never recommend anyone to work for IBM for any public-funded projects.

Advice to Management

Try to be more clear and transparent with people rather than being political.

Try to utilize people to their best abilities rather than expecting their approvals in their political roles.

Project Managers should treat the team humanely and should believe in their instincts rather than believing only leads who are corrupt and irresponsible. They should keep their ego away when at work.

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