Company: IBM
Date: 2016-05-20
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current

Stay away from Open Source positions
Pros: A large company culture. Excellent sales training and good work life balance.
Cons: Not sure where to start. Within Software sales division, IBM hired some 30 odd Hadoop Hunter Sales Engineer positions only to give them notices within 6 months. For the CEO/SVPs it seems like these are just "budget games". A VP comes up with the Hadoop Hunter idea and without any due diligence gets some $6-7MM sanctioned by the CEO. Then he hires Hadoop Sales Engineers only to lay them off in 5 months realizing that the product isn't selling.

So our Mr. VP still has his job and so do all the Hadoop Hunter managers. The same senior management is now seeking another $10MM from the CEO for the new so-called Open Source positions only to see them fail again in 6 months time. These executives take fun in playing with our lives. Personally I am okay but I know an engineer has a baby on the way, another person is delivering kids to college and so on but for those executives and managers, these are just Budget Games or SYA Games. What a shame!! Not a single manager in the hadoop hunter team got a notice, however all new technical folks who never got a chance to prove themselves are being laid off.

Way to go IBM. Investors better start shorting your IBM portfolios.