Company: IBM
Date: 2019-07-19
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

High level vision blinds low level planning
Pros: It's big and can do what it wants
Cons: Over and over and over again I've seen my leadership plan a process change, an org change, a tool change at a 10,000 ft level and say "we'll figure out the rest when we get in there." And over and over and over again they seem mystified as to why they aren't seeing the target results.  They have vision but lack the ability to think through the details.  Changes are rolled out without a thorough stakeholder analysis, without adequate warning, and without adequate training.

There is also no accountability for decision making.  When changes have been rolled out that didn't work well each manager's response was "Well, this issue is above my pay grade".    When issues that could impact our team came up the leaders had to be prompted to push back and make sure the change was really necessary.

Bonus and raise structure was aweful