Company: IBM
Date: 2017-08-17
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

Techical Specialist
Pros: - Good pay, good benefit
Cons: Useless appraisal system, no matter how hard you work and make your customers happy, you are a number and supervisors are little engaged at making things better for you. They will find the smallest misses in your work to excuse lack of recognition and invisible pay raises, even after cutting personnel resources.  Supervisors  spend more time at findings ways to shine in the eyes of their management by pulling the numbers for them no matter what. Soldiers on the ground are left on their own with useless training to the job. Heavy internal procedures adding unnecessary weight on technical staff and customer-facing employees, a huge lack of respect. Too many people assigned to control jobs; too little left  to hands-on work. Excessive focus for profit thus long term relationships with customers are indirectly neglected. Although advertising themselves as highly ethical on paper, massive layoffs and poor recognition of hard work creates demotivation. This company starts a business model then promptly drops it when it sees profit declines. Spend more time artchitecting the mission than living it. IBM is a zoo from the inside, a miracle for the outside. After dropping production of PCs, printers and servers, then switching to cloud computing, smart cities and analytics, IBM has departed for the most part from conventional IT with hope to find high margin niches to make already overfed investors even more greedier. Seem you have lost some contact with the real world by trying to overinnovate where the markets are not done digesting the last revolution. The perception of IBM on the market is already suffering because of the growing distance that seems to build between real-life business constraints found at customers and what is perceived like iut of this world business models pushed by IBM. The gap is too big for most businesses;  selling contracts becomes much harder with these now that IBM departs from supposedly non-profitable models that are still demanded on the market. The valuable experience and talent of many good employees goe down the gutter, something that will cost quite a bit  to refain if needed again one day. And it will