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Senior Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at IBM for less than 1 year
September 29, 2008
Raleigh, North Carolina
1.0
Doesn't RecommendDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Name recognition on a resume. If you do join, don't stay long; a couple of years max, then move on to some other company with better prospects.

Cons

Incompetent upper management. Executives are more interested in driving the stock price up in the next quarter to line their pockets than in planning for the company's long-term prospects.

Most senior management is completely clueless on the technical front and relies on underpaid and overworked folks in the trenches to do all of the hard work.

PowerPoint presentations are ubiquitous and long (100+ slides in a presentation are not unusual), and people spend months and months between pre-pre-reviews and pre-reviews before the final review.

Advice to Management

Resign! Think about what the Watsons would say if they could see you now.

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