Company: IBM
Date: 2019-11-10
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Awful and sad
Pros: If you’re recently hired at the director+ level they pay well because no one from outside the company wants to work there.
Director+ gets you and administrative assistant which is exceedingly outdated but it’s nice not to have to do your own expenses
Cons: It’s hard to describe just how sad it is to work at this company.  It’s collapsing under the weight of overly complicated, inflexible business processes. There are two types of people here: people that actually do some work and walk around looking traumatized and people that fire out emails all day, clogging up everyone’s inbox or sit on 30 person conference calls and produce nothing. It’s pure lunacy. The co-location thing they did was one of the stupidest moves anyone has ever seen in business. In fact it was downright abusive and heartbreaking to watch people struggle with that decision.  Directors and above spend most of their day inspecting or being inspected using these Byzantine metrics reports.Everyone is constantly worrying when they get laid off too.  Within two days of working here I had decided to pull the plug and walked away from a huge paycheck. Seriously I don’t know how anyone works at this company it’s miserable.