IBM Reviews

Pros

Time flexibility
Young personnel
Possibilities to gain knowledge from broaden business sphere

Cons

Not very competitive salary
Very low package of social benefits

Pros

Big company allowing you to move around to do different things within the same company.

Cons

Everything is driven towards cutting expenses and cost at the expense of the employees. Employee morale is visibly as low as can be, but upper executives and management do not care, and with reason: they are making a killing buying shares back. Revenue is mostly flat, you would think investors will catch up at some point, but somehow it never happens.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop focusing on EPS numbers, you will eventually destroy the company. that we all used to care about.

Pros

Clean. I dont think that we even have janitores but we might. This place is a great place to work.

Cons

Pay. The pay alone is the only reason to stay. The company needs to bw re organized for sure asap.

Advice to Senior Management

How about you all take a minimum of 5 courses at a mJor university on how to effectivdly run a company

Pros

I enjoyed the ten to twelve different careers I have had at IBM

Cons

slow to weed out an occassional bad apple

Pros

gather many experiences in one company, global attitude, successful company

Cons

sometimes time consuming decision process

Advice to Senior Management

more delegation, encourage and enable more entrepreneurship at lower levels

Pros

Great on resume.
Exposure to different customers
Exposure to different technologies

Cons

Small cog, Big Machine
Ran by accountants.
Global Resourcing.

Advice to Senior Management

Look beyond the fiscal quarter.

Pros

- Provides lot of opportunities for learning
- Can get opportunity to work with many technical experts
- Very flexible work environment
- Opportunity to get to work with services, products and research groups
- Opportunity to work with a global workforce

Cons

- It' a big company and so competition is more
- Promotions may take a bit longer time
- Does not have an effective and efficient Performance management/Assessment system
- Services group employee attrition rate is high compared to product and research groups
- Good, talented, technical people cannot stay long with promotions in Services group unless they move into management

Advice to Senior Management

- Have a fair performance assessment
- In services group managers must focus on technical quality and not on quantity(headcount!)
- Have a thin layer of management in Services group to enable better operation and span of control

Pros

Excellent growth and work Opportunities
Great amount of Flexibility and trust
Employee's Work-life is very well balanced. WFH option
Reputation

Cons

Very little or null Salary Hikes in most of the year/cycle
Poor Bonus scheme
Manager driven/controlled decision making
Heavily process oriented

Advice to Senior Management

Good place to work for and to feel proud to be a part of. Excellent employee work-life balance. But once joined employees financial growth is very minute which need to be taken care of.

Pros

It's a big company that gives you a lot of exposure despite minimizing the responsibility they hand out. Overall, a satisfying experience.

Cons

It's a big company, again. So they work they allocate is usually not very hard or significant. More management than work

Advice to Senior Management

I'd like more work, essentially. More work, more recognition, more significance in your role is basically the only thing I found lacking.

Pros

good & flexible , you can learn yourself alot

Cons

politics & seniours not ready to help

Advice to Senior Management

managers are stupid