Company: IBM
Date: 2014-10-16
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

Needs change in direction and measurement
Pros: Great capabilities and great people but that won't last.
Cons: Collaboration within a service line and amongst service lines used to be what makes IBM special. Now neither is happening. In fact you are competing not only with your peers within one group but with your up line partner who can call the shot on who gets the lead signing or revenue credit. So you make the sale, negotiate it, sign it and at the end you may or may not get credit for it. Direction is set in armonk and no empowerment to local teams or localization of those decisions. One size fits all. People are not getting raises and are frustrated with the extreme utilization targets. Always an excuse to rank you lower and to pay you less bonus if any. The feeling is that the company is building a negative environment to make people leave without severance. And that's what I did once I found the right opportunity after almost two decades with IBM. The shift into CAMS (cloud, analytic , Mobil , security) is sudden and also late so clients and employees don't know how to go from here to there with IBM.