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Used to be good. Now... questionable

Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at IBM for less than 1 year
June 13, 2010
Taipei, Taiwan
2.0
Doesn't RecommendNo CEO Opinion
Pros

Work in a multi-cultural environment to broaden the sights.

The governance (Matrix).

Work with talents.

Cons

Work/Life distortion (12+ hours per day)

Budget shrinks year over year, being stingy to all employees, but asking technical people to create more and more innovative deliverables.

Then it means it is generous to shareholders (but not to employees, only 5% discounts of subscribing stock options).

Punish young and new hires (taking longer and longer for promotion, less and less raise while being promoted).

The ROI is low when working on a hot product/project (no more bonus, no clever rating rules).

Boring office layout (while the office layout is somewhere the creative works root).

Advice to Management

Stop talking clichés; talk more about things that can really help people.

Put himself on the side of his team and the team's vision, not with the cost-saving policy from the company.

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