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Smart Team, Slow Management

Senior Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at IBM for 20 years
May 30, 2016
2.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

The people I work with are intelligent and some of the brightest in the industry.

Work from home.

Cons

The same people I work with are handcuffed and handicapped by an arcane management system that is playing catch-up on technology.

Too many levels of approval are required to get anything done. What takes less than a day at a smaller company can take over a week at IBM.

Executive leadership needs to stop cutting people in the lower ranks. Too many good people were laid off, and now there are not enough folks to do the work, and schedules have not changed. More work, less people.

Advice to Management

Why are you giving folks trips to Hawaii, as read in the U.K. Register dated 2016/04/08, when you are cutting jobs and not giving raises or promotions to people who have had 2+ ratings (4 out of 5) for years in a row?

Either all get raises, bonuses, trips, etc., or nobody gets them.

The executive leadership is really disconnected from the everyday workings of the company. They are stuck in their Armonk Ivory Tower and should get out and about to talk to the troops in person. After all, it is the first-line managers and below that build the products that make the company.

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