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Bureaucratic, Old Tech, Great People

Software Developer
Current Employee
Has worked at IBM for 2 years
March 14, 2019
Români, undefined
3.0
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

The salary is okay, but you might not get a raise when you want it. For me, it was delayed by a year.

People are great, but you can find great people in other companies also.

Cons

Very bureaucratic.

You need a business reason for everything. Even a laptop, if it is not the standard one.

Free courses are worthless, and paid courses are almost never approved. On the other hand, money is wasted by management in some stupid ways.

Usually, you will be stuck with old technologies and bad clients, which the management entertains in their bad practices.

Advice to Management

Change the old management. There are people with no school who are able to make better decisions.

Stop trying to save money on employee laptops and training because there are other companies out there that are not doing this and have better results.

Try to work with open-source technologies to gain more and better clients. Don't try to sell your products to everyone because you are not competitive enough.

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