Company: IBM
Date: 2016-01-14
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Confirmed

IT Specialist
Pros: - The experience you gain is for life. IBM shaped me as a professional, and I will be forever thankful for the experience,
- Training courses, mentorship programs, drop-ins are incredible.
- Thousands of opportunities to change areas and learn new things.
Cons: - The salary is very lower than the Market average.
- The workload is too high, the staff is always shorter than it should. Overtimes are not exceptional, but a routine reality.
- The stress level is constantly high, many employees and managers are under anxiety medication to handle it.
- There are too many career bureaucracies distracting the professional from the real delivery and real company's needs.
- The technical career is limited, and it results in too many technical managers with no people skill, and no interest to develop it.
- The American Way of managing can be really cruel and inhumane. People are sad and frustrated in this company.
- Quality as Service is unpriorityzed. IBM has gone to a path of cutting the costs and budget that lead to a very poor quality staff and service, and the results are shown in the company's results in the last years.