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Just a paycheck

Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at IBM for less than 1 year
March 13, 2014
2.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Decent starting pay. Decent benefits. Flexibility to work from home as needed.

Cons

Everyone seems to be extremely overworked.

My daily meetings on Friday usually involve 50% of the team saying "I hope to get done over the weekend".

Also, morale is a joke. IBM really doesn't seem to care about having productive or happy employees.

And, there's the continual fear of being RA'd (IBM speak for layoff).

Advice to Management

Wake up. If you keep marching towards roadkill 2015 and focus only on the stock price, you'll not have a company to worry about. Customers will keep leaving. Outsourcing jobs to cut costs won't save you when you have no customers.

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