Company: IBM
Date: 2018-08-12
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former

Bad Management. Stay Away.
Pros: Brand Name (only thing left will help your career)
Flexible work hours
Cons: Bad management for the entire branch. One obvious sign: the top management is filled with relatives and friends.

Slow promotion. The center tries to put as much as possible requirements to block your promotion. For a small amount of salary raise with the base is already far below the average, they need you to provide an incredible amount of evidence that you deserve it. Yet, there are chances they say NO to it in the end. If it’s approved, you’ll have to wait a couple of months to get the actual result even sometimes the entire process just happen in the center which should just take days or weeks. But if you’re “ favored”, you’re very likely to get a fast promotion, skip bands and good pay with little work.

No passion, no vision. The management level talks about the budget all the time instead of vision and projects. Your life will about the billed hours. Yet there are flexible working hours and work from home policy, you won’t benefit from them too much if you want to stay there for the long-term and be promoted. It has lots of small easy projects without any challenges. The big projects are very likely to collapse without real results.

Lack of respect for the people who do real work. There are a few amounts of people who handle all the real problems of the projects. They’re overwhelmed and not respected. The managers say they appreciate your efforts but they are really not. Good people leave all the time and the management level don’t care.

Poor work environment. Don’t even think about anything nice, there is no coffee machine and you can imagine the rest.

Refuse to change. All the decisions are top-down (normal in a big company), and the top management has no intention to change with serious problems like people left and projects collapse. They don’t care about individual success at all. The management style feels like 30 years ago in a bad way.

All these may sound very negative, but unfortunately, they’re all true. People leave as soon as they see these issues. Lots of people left after staying here less than one year. Stay away from it if you have other choices.