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Good Pay, bad Opportunity

Staff Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at IBM for 2 years
April 8, 2015
Hillsboro, Oregon
2.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros
  • Good pay.
  • Good stock matching plan.
  • The small groups you work with are usually pretty nice.
Cons
  • Terrible bonuses.
  • Stock matching plan is once a year; if you are fired or quit, you lose it.
  • Constantly cut employee benefits.
  • They like to cut pay raises.
  • They like to cut bonuses.
  • Upper management wants to drive the company into the ground.
  • Tons of layoffs.
  • Really hard to advance your career.
Advice to Management

They don't know what they are doing. They want to go into cloud and expand profits when the entire revenue of cloud is less than the revenue of IBM. They lay off all the bad people, and then cut all the benefits so all the good people want to leave.

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