IBM Now Going Through Horrible Decline - Stay Away Unless You Like Pain
IBM Now Going Through Horrible Decline - Stay Away Unless You Like Pain
People on the software side below management are good. R&D capabilities are wonderful. Lots of roles. Compensation is reasonable.
Long-term declines in revenues, stock value, and brand strength.
Shedding people by the thousands every six months to maintain profits.
Targeting older people and expensive people.
Selling off parts of the business.
Enforced watching of inane training videos (sometimes hundreds of hours per year).
Offering pricing too high.
Too little investment in solutions specific to industry issues.
Administrative tasks required are onerous.
Sales objectives are crazy.
Services strategy of land-and-expand is ugly.
Can't convert good R&D into viable offerings because of unrealistic expectations.
Too many more to list...
You needed to be more like Google, AWS, and Microsoft, but now they have pushed you down, taken your lunch bag, and are walking away eating it. An entirely new upper management layer would be a good start, but that won't happen any time soon.
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Senior Solutions Architect
Face-to-face interview. Skills assessed: Technical, Project Management, General, and Management. This was a scheduled interview. Multiple rounds of interviews were conducted. Air travel fare was provided for the final round of the interview. Ove
Senior Solutions Architect
The swift interview process included one-to-one and group exercises. Progression from telephone to face-to-face interviews was quick. However, the feedback process was poor, and I had to keep chasing after a long wait.
Software Engineer
Contacted via email. Interview by video call. Suspended after 10 minutes by the interviewer due to a work emergency; no further explanation was given. Rescheduled for the following day, it concluded successfully.
Senior Solutions Architect
IndiaAugust 17, 2017Face-to-face interview. Skills assessed: Technical, Project Management, General, and Management. This was a scheduled interview. Multiple rounds of interviews were conducted. Air travel fare was provided for the final round of the interview. Ove
Senior Solutions Architect
United KingdomJuly 25, 2019The swift interview process included one-to-one and group exercises. Progression from telephone to face-to-face interviews was quick. However, the feedback process was poor, and I had to keep chasing after a long wait.
Software Engineer
MexicoJune 15, 2022Contacted via email. Interview by video call. Suspended after 10 minutes by the interviewer due to a work emergency; no further explanation was given. Rescheduled for the following day, it concluded successfully.
