Company: IBM
Date: 2018-05-10
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

IBM is not what it used to be
Pros: "Some" very good people to work with.   The products used to be good, but now it feels like they should be in hospice.
Cons: Much of the upper-middle and upper management are only trying to get their next promotion.    

The result is that very shortsighted decisions get made and often hurt the products, integrations and the people building/selling them.

MVP is a common phrase now with Product Dev/Mgmt --- this is not referring to Most Valuable Process.   MVP refers to Minimal Viable Product and they rarely meet this MVP requirement.

The amount of middle-management headcount through most of IBM is surprising.    There were 4 mid-tier managers that had no direct reports in our reasonably small territory.  IBM also chose to cut people that were genuinely doing work and adding value instead of repurposing spreadsheets.