Company: IBM
Date: 2017-07-12
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Ruination affects staff not management
Pros: Great, large companies to work with and a host of products and services which you can work with if your heart desires.
Cons: The problems at IBM are deep set in their culture of not looking to management when things fail and taking far too much at face value. For a company of this size and which has this love of numbers they take the real view from staff with little importance, even when the numbers corroborate the stories.

Working manic hours, having non-responsive to the industry but also your needs products and departments all lead to a job which is hard. Not hard in the good way of a challenge, its just hard as you cannot do it all. The company forces you to do more to benefit the company in my case it was called Checkpoints as well as spend at least 40 hours a year learning, but most of these are at your own time as the utilisation targets are immense and often a 37 hour work week turns into 50-60 hours.

The sales targets are also immense, sometimes having to push the limits of capabilities of not only the tools but also the people supporting those to achieve a goal, often leading to projects not being done to spec or not even realistically specced.

The management (as the title says) is often the last to be looked at in cases of things (like departments and products) not working and generally they will cut from the workforce instead of the high cost management. This happens even when evidence is produced that management grossly mismanages staff.

Having a bad, somewhere in another country HR department is also a major BOON!