Company: IBM
Date: 2016-05-23
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current

No Longer Great
Pros: Work from home, benefits package (insurance), my teammates are great.
Cons: It's no longer a great place to work. The company no longer values its employees. The only thing that seems to matter is the bottom line and it seems they only way that they know how to make "the numbers" is to lay people off and move the work to lower skilled and much cheaper "off-shore" employees. It really sucks when you get a lay off notice and they force you to train your replacement in another country. 

Moral is at an all time low for everyone I work with so no one wants to do a good job anyone. 

They keep getting rid of good skilled employees and replacing them off with off-shore resources, without reducing the workload. What they fail to realize is that something that took a couple hours to complete now takes days...due to language barriers and time zone differences. How is that more cost effective? 

It also seems like the company has been in 'transformation' for YEARS. It is very difficult to get and keep ones bearings when it's likely that everything will change again before too long. Why even try to keep up?