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Smart People, Old Company Politics

Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at IBM for 2 years
April 11, 2016
Raleigh, North Carolina
3.0
Neutral OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros

A wealth of intelligent and helpful people.

Benefits are competitive.

Salary is competitive.

Huge company so you can go just about anywhere and there are endless opportunities to learn new things.

Cons

Old school company. It is trying to act/react like a cutting-edge, small company, and it's just not feasible. There are too many high-level management personnel who just want to keep doing the same thing over and over. The review process is all politics. If you're not constantly "contributing by delivering services for use by the client," then you are at risk of being laid off. This makes it a bit difficult to tell where you stand, as you could be working on a huge project that gets scrapped. Then you have nothing to show for it, and that creates an issue when the time for more layoffs comes.

Advice to Management

This behemoth is dying. Reinvent means reinvent, not redirect...

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