Company: IBM
Date: 2016-12-28
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former

IBM got duped out of 1 billion dollars
Pros: good 401k thanks to Ibm, that is all
Cons: merge is a company built on acquiring other companies, stripping them down, putting products they buy into maintenance mode and not developing them further, and bleeding the customer bases dry.  They have no concept of customer satisfaction, priority number one is pushing the sale even if it's something we can't implement or does not make sense for a customer.  Because all they know how to do is acquire and destroy, they have no idea how to develope something on their own that actually works (iconnect network for example).  Now Ibm thinks merge is going to be able to help release new products utilizing the Watson engine this year, not holding my breath on that one.  All departments are silos and getting them to work together is impossible, there is a culture of if it does not fall into my job description leave me alone.  Their sales leadership can be best compared to that of a used car salesman.  They litteraly would rather have their sales people sit at a prospects site for the last two weeks of the quarter and endlessly beg for the deal even if they have been told no decision will be made by then.  Nepotism runs rampant, the high level positions held by a number of upper managers who have zero qualifications to be in that position is amazing.  Upper management would rather have allies and yes men around them rather than hire someone who could implement meaningful change and question the current conditions.