Company: IBM
Date: 2017-08-26
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Formerly great company on its way to the bottom
Pros: Great coworkers. Good insurance. Work from home benefit was the best thing IBM had going for it.
Cons: Colocation supposedly to enable agile, shoulder to shoulder work which makes no sense with half the team members in India, so everyone knows it was to lay off older, experienced, more expensive employees. Constant layoffs. Replacement of experienced staff with inexperienced staff. Senseless reorgs. Battling business units. Arrogant headquarters. Fewer employees and more work per person. Lousy help desk support for all applications. American jobs shipped overseas. Constant anxiety and worry about having a job, especially those 50 years or older with a target on their backs. Lousy executives do nothing but hound their staff for more powerpoint decks. The current execs make poor decisions but they keep adding more executives and laying off the people who do the work.  It used to be that those who were hit in the 3x a year layoffs got one week of severance for each year of service. Now everyone gets 30 days. IBM glory days are over and no way to pull out of 21 quarter slump with the current executive team. I used to be proud to be an IBMer. No longer.