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Senior Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at IBM for less than 1 year
June 29, 2009
San Jose, California
2.0
Approves of CEO
Pros
  • Good balance between work and life.
  • Pursuit of knowledge is encouraged and facilitated by the many classes and other opportunities offered.
  • Benefits are exceptional.
Cons
  • Difficult to push for new ideas.
  • Seniority over meritocracy. Promotions are generally done based on number of years rather than competence level.
  • Silos: Each team is isolated from the other teams. There is a significant amount of either duplication of effort or product cannibalism due to this lack of collaboration.
Advice to Management

Management needs to embrace new ideas and be flexible. It needs to place a higher weight on innovation in order to allow IBM to be more competitive and successful in the future.

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