Company: IBM
Date: 2015-01-28
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former

Global Delivery Failure
Pros: Great start for juniors or for those who never worked for a multinational company before.
Youthful labor, friendly and inclusive teams. Easy to make friends not just collegial relationship.
Labour law abiding behaviour (work-hour and overtime limitations comply with the law), that is not always respected by local companies (including local plants and sites of multinational companies that have hungarian management locally).
Good work life balance, and average benefits.
Cons: Salary is fair compared to the average salary of the whole country, but compared to IT companies, or other multinational companies, who have a contruction plant here you get here quite the lowest.

Wage pressure between management salaries, and emplloyee salaries. 1% of regular employees who are in expert position can get fair monthly income, but the rest will never. According to corridor rumors, department manager has 4 or 5 times the salary as a regular average employee. Management also has quite visible and neat benefits, somtimes on the cost of the workers benefits.

Taking back something because of the recession, then all can see that management business cars were changed to a newer model, is quite demoralizing.

IBM here acts like a broker company, not like a professional world leading IT industry giant. Customer first policy was introduced one year ago when the biggest customers with million dollar contracts started to leave before contract end or just not renewing the contract.

Quality system (GDF) is used to eyewash, to mystify customers. All numbers are green, always. They have to, all you, who support and work with GDF can get in trouble with your department manager (that gets you in double trouble). I literally lied in a report (and many do) just to meet the targets, so the team would remain green.
Also this helped my manager to escape impeachment, so he wouldn't get a bad yearly performance evaluation.

IBM likes to tell that Diversity is a major concern. Maybe in the US or in other EU offices, but not here. Sexist discrimination is present. Why did a my colleague (a girl) who was hired at the same time as me, was at the same age like me, had Master degree in IT, got 20% less salary? I had only a Bachelor's degree in IT, and was a newbie on the labor market as well. Also some female colleagues are hired because of their looks, not because of their education or qualities, and most of them get manager assistant positions. Even in one cases a sexual affair came to light for everyone in the team that occurred on a team building, but everyone remained silent just to avoid trouble. No one had the guts to notify the ethical board, that was always pressurized that we should if we encoounter any unethical behavoir.