Company: IBM
Date: 2012-09-18
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Confirmed

Process after process...  serious lack of common sense
Pros: People..skills, experience..  strength of the brand, breadth of products
Cons: -  complicated processes to do simple things

-  weak managers who hide behind tick in the box spreadsheets

-  staff graded a score of 1 to 4 by subjective management every year, this affects bonus pay out

-  expense policy does not include broadband for home workers

-  expense policy is tedious and far too strict, normal travel to IBM offices needs pre-approval

-  levels and levels of executive management, not clear who does what

-  no budget for any social activity, and very little focus on social's during or after company time

-  poor communication throughout company,  over load of email, official announcements often get lost because of this

-  first line managers are text book managers, completed courses, but lack people skills, and are running dysfunctional teams

-  first line managers are performing little motivational support, or HR type support, they are purely focused on transactional activity's, and not the interests of their subordinates

-  redundancy program's are run in very tight timescales, and HR seem out of touch with legal guidelines and ensuring people are notified and communicated to properly.   

-  employees do not have a dedicated HR person they can turn to if they need support or guidance

-  first line managers are not up to speed with HR guidelines

-  very control driven culture, does not invite feedback, and if feedback is given, company is very very slow to react, and put any changes in place

-  often things have to be extremely bad over a pro-longed period of time, before issues are acknowledged, symptoms of issues are brushed over

-  changes to processes are poorly announced, enablement and roll out is very sub-standard.   staff are given short online group sessions, there is no class room based face to face training

-  morale is generally very low,  and people do not speak up in case they will be put on personal improvement plans, which is often used as a device to teach you a lesson

-   pay rises are extremely rare, there is no annual inflation adjustment either

-  commission pay out are subjective, rather then automatically paid out