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A nice place to work for a researcher

Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at IBM for less than 1 year
October 23, 2015
4.0
RecommendsNeutral OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros
  1. Get to work on hot topics in your area of expertise.
  2. Your research work, if interesting enough, reaches out on a global scale.
  3. You're pretty much insulated from management ripples due to any financial dips the company has.
  4. Publishing is encouraged and is done fairly regularly.
Cons
  1. IBM is in a turnaround phase.

The markets in focus are constantly changing every year, so your research must reach out to the right team quickly before their focus changes and your work is shelved.

  1. There is no centralized showcase to share your work with diverse groups across the company.

This leads to redundant ideas being developed independently, when a shared effort among labs and groups would yield a better solution.

Advice to Management
  1. The HR department should be more proactive and reach out to young minds.
  2. There is too much delay along the management line; things take a while to move.

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