Company: IBM
Date: 2017-03-16
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current

IBM does not walk the talk of employee engagement
Pros: Unfortunately very few to speak off. Watson is a very good initiative but very complex to deploy.
Cons: Poor communication, VP's with no backbone to stand up to Corp HQ, Too much process and bureaucracy to make a real difference, litany of failed projects, on-going redundancies (or RA's as IBM likes to so nice put it). IBM is caught in a downward spiral of financial share price engineering at the expense of employees and clients. Further, and more alarmingly, it has also started to sell its IP to help boost earnings.   Sales people beware that rather than see you as a valuable asset to boost client engagement and business, you are viewed as a necessary evil by the Finance Dept, who really run the company. Sales quotas continuously changed at very late stages in the year, sales people not paid commission owing. Exec's / managers really have very little empowerment to change things for the better of their teams. IBM has prioritised shareholders above all else and unfortunately have lost site of the two most important stakeholders.......their people and their client.