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Great People, Chaotic Innovation

Senior Solution Architect
Current Employee
Has worked at IBM for 4 years
March 23, 2018
4.0
RecommendsNeutral OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros

Great benefits.

One of the few companies investing in R&D.

Variety of technologies and roles to explore and work in.

Very good environment and lots of great people to work with.

Cons

Internal processes are a bit chaotic, which does not allow full capitalization on the R&D and pipeline of great innovations. Pockets of nepotism, which is growing like cancer.

Advice to Management

Need to be more focused and stop doing the same things and running the same initiative through multiple groups. Need to be better coordinated at higher levels.

Need to retire the old guard who cannot think beyond a "my product line" mentality. Need to curb the growing cancer of nepotism. Hint: watch for unnatural clusters of people from the same background.

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