Company: IBM
Date: 2015-03-29
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current

IBM has lost it's  humanity and big picture outside of the current quarter.
Pros: Work fom home (no commute). Plenty of opportunity to build new skills.  Coworkers are the best anywhere... you have to stick together when under so much pressure.
Cons: People are afraid.  Management doesn't want to hear about problems or solutions to solve the horrendous working environment and employee morale.  When RAs need to occur (constantly now) you would think our CEO, like so many other good leaders would,  could send out a nice employee communication expressing sympathy,  support and explanation behind the cuts. You know,  transparency,  trust,  respect for your employees (assets)? But no, not a peep! It's all secretive,  harsh and plain brutal. Employees cuts can't find preferred jobs internally because once the headcount is budgeted out, it must go. Employees are not told this and waste their measly 30 day notice looking for those before shown the door.  Work life balance is not existent. Management owns your personal time and will tell you so. Including weekends and holidays. They have an internal thank program that management can use to help employees feel more appreciated,  but they don't even use it. It is so hardened into the culture, we are at the point to just expect more from your "resources" and if they don't like it, employees should just get out.  People are expected to work hours you can't believe.   3-5 hour of sleep a night and then back to work. They keep letting people posture and position more and mire middle and upper management.  This all adds yo IBM cost,  but adds no value for their customer.  So rates are high and customers don't want to pay it. You could get rid of so many director and middle management,  lower rates and sell more business. Yet they won't hire more people to do the lifting, because of utilization targets. Look... the whole model isn't working,  hasn't been for 10 yeas or more.. yet they hang on to it because it's all management knows.  Entrenched is the word. I am personally planning my exit after 20byears, as are soooo many I know. "