Company: IBM
Date: 2018-09-24
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

Past it’s best - such a shame  :(
Pros: Still some great people / clients / projects / products, but generally on the downturn & shared feeling that “we’ve had the best out of it”.
Cons: Struggling to migrate to the New World.  Google, AWS & particularly Microsoft Azure are taking large lumps out of the software business, and rival Services firms seem to have the edge on innovation / client consulting over GBS.  The strategy is sound at top level, but badly implemented by in-country Management & inadequately resourced from the centre:

-  Massive pressure on management, and therefore Sellers at all levels in all territories, as customer capex spend on perpetual licences shifts to opex / SaaS & the numbers still need to go up year-on-year to protect the all-important share price - if it’s not happening in-quarter then it may as well not happen at all.

-  Increasingly regular rounds of redundancies interspersed with multiple resignations at all levels, many are choosing to vote with their feet anyway as resources & support necessary to support customers adequately evaporate.

-  Graduate Program struggle to break-through onto proper money & mostly then leave for either Salesforce or Microsoft (who get cheap, pre-trained, enthusiastic second-jobbers off a conveyor belt).

-  Office facilities & day-to-day working environment for staff (away from client-areas) leave a lot to be desired relative to modern competitive standards.