Company: IBM
Date: 2016-07-20
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former

Horrific company to work for
Pros: Learn from the inside why one should never hire or buy IBM products ( see cons for why ).
Cons: When you work for IBM your life becomes rapidly a nightmare. You will spend your working days trying to figure-out how to go through an infinite number of painful processes, using obsolete tools. It looks like you are stuck in the 90s with software that has been acquired and never maintained. The management is disconnected from the reality, absurd decisions are taken without even realizing the impacts on the products and customers. Employees are supposed to do everything by themselves - which is fine - but whatever you try to do ( for example, book for a travel, use an internal tool for your project team, etc... ) it never works - nothing never ever works ! So 90% of your day becomes non-productive. IBM (Lotus) Notes is incredibly useless - people do not bother to search for their emails ( hard to believe but there is no proper search in IBM notes in 2015 !) and keep asking you to re-send this or that email, because there is so much internal junk emails, people stop reading their email and IM (Same Time) you every 5 minutes to make sure you did read the email ( wait - you have to synchronize your email client first like in 1995 :-) At the end the frustrations are piling up and you become more and more frustrated, you realize the company is on the verge of collapsing and the management is desperate and panicking. Despite all your efforts, you cannot possibly serve your customer or deliver any value... When you realize this, you write your resignation letter with a big BIG smile and remember this moment as one of the best in your life...