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Great vision, marketing, but... infrastructure needs work

Solution Architect
Current Employee
Has worked at IBM for 2 years
May 22, 2013
Branford, Connecticut
3.0
Approves of CEO
Pros

Travel and diverse teams. Good benefits and pay.

Cons

Lotus Notes is mandatory; a very hard pill to swallow if you're an expert MS Outlook user.

Buggy online infrastructure and internal cluster resources kill creative flow and productivity.

The 401k company match is done at the end of the year.

Advice to Management
  1. Make Lotus Notes better than MS Outlook, or get rid of it.

  2. Measure and publish up-time of online infrastructure systems. Focus optimization efforts on what is weakest.

  3. Create a single interface to find and reserve cluster resources. Make it as easy or easier than Amazon EC2, or get rid of it.

  4. Return to the monthly 401k match.

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