Company: IBM
Date: 2021-02-18
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Constant cuts have made a once long-term attractive employer a risky prospect
Pros: The other IBMers you work with are usually talented, friendly people always willing to help.

Flexible hours are favourable, however the vast majority of IBMers work far longer than their contracted hours to get their heavy workload done.
Cons: The company is in a loop of "resource actions" constantly cutting headcount, even in successful and strategic areas such as AI. The morale amongst my peers is the lowest I've ever known it with concern on where the axe will drop next, as cuts are not tied to personal performance so no-one is safe.

Due to constantly reducing headcount while not reducing (and even increasing) workload employees can end up doing the job several people at once. Executives do not reduce expectations when team sizes are reduced, and act with surprise and disappointment if the remaining team doesn't deliver what the old team would have struggled to achieve.