Company: IBM
Date: 2021-04-17
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Make sure you're progressing your career rather than IBM taking you for what it needs
Pros: - There are great educational programmes in leadership, coaching and technical development
- There are really smart people working in the company.
- When you're working with great people they are the reason you stay.
- In some roles you have the ability to shape the role and try out new things that excite you.
Cons: - Salary is below average for the industry, the only way to get on a good salary is through negotiation at hire and after that through promotion of band.
- Very much the in-boys having the power, locking everyone else out
- Management take a view of people being able to switched from one technology stack to another without any thought given to the skills people have been building in cutting edge areas that are very beneficial to the company
- Senior leaders are not able to stand up and have the difficult conversations and truly transform the company. They are too scared even when all of their team are telling them what needs to be said.
- There are so many times there are elephants in the room scenarios and management don't tackle them. There is a serious lack of leadership
- Management expect employees to have no lives and work crazy hours, time and time again.
- Nothing is being done around mental health and employee well being, employees are just meant to deal with their issues without any help even when it's called for.
 - Executives come out with big initiatives without any care for how it's done, causing their teams so much stress on how to execute. There is no vision.
- There is no long terms planning and trying to see what's coming down the line.
- The company is very bureaucratic making it very difficult to get things done.
- It's very difficult to make big changes, there is push back at every turn.
- It's difficult to have the autonomy to drive things forward,