IBM Reviews

Pros

Great people.
Flexible work schedule opportunities
Work with people all around the world
Abundant opportunities for growth and development

Cons

Worklife balance can be a challenge
The company is always changing and looking for lower cost employees (global resources) which creates an environment of uncertainty concerning employees.

Pros

To get IBM onto your resume. Hope to work on cutting edge systems. Hope to advance your career. Lexington is a great town in which to live.

Cons

Moral in Lexington is pretty bad and that is a shame because the people still working for IBM are really good but they have been abandoned by IBM. Complete lack of over sight and lack of recognition.

Advice to Senior Management

Take care of all of your people. Not just the ones working on Watson.

Pros

Work/life balance
Benefits
Global reach and opportunities within company
Stability
Advanced Research and Development
Long history of innovation

Cons

Bureaucracy
Process
Off shoring
Bringing advanced tech to market

Advice to Senior Management

Decentralize
Get involved in consumerization of tech

Pros

Great time off package and decent compensation

Cons

Vertical organization with many level of managers creating unnecessary paper works

Advice to Senior Management

You have hired top talent professionals. Let them take charge and have the glory once in a while

Pros

Skills are recognized here and job is decided as per your skill sets. The training is given as per your developmental skill sets. Assessment is done as per process and it is transparent.

Cons

Some associates are loaded more than their capacity. This makes him unreachable for his teammates unreachable. His performance affects due to the policy.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep up the good work to maintain the standards. Help the employees to grow within the organization and make it the best workplace.

Pros

Culture and good management at top level.

Cons

Salary and compensation should be the first priority.

Advice to Senior Management

Try to recognize individuals.

Pros

Flexible Work Timings
Work From Home
Exposure
The huge customers list
the brand value
it looks good on your resume

Cons

No Work life balance
you work for peanuts
difficult to move around in the system
diffcult to get used to never ending processes

Pros

demanding / challenging work
smart co-workers
access to cutting edge technologies and huge accounts

Cons

work is constantly being off-shored. The current business model is to simplify job roles and then off-shore them to low cost labor countries. Means getting promoted is difficult, and a probability of a good salary increase is low.

Advice to Senior Management

no advice, morale is horrible and I don't anything is going to change anytime soon. They are doing what it takes in this economic/political climate to succeed. The US is hosed for the time being.
ps. When all the tech jobs have been off-shored, guess who will be next? There won't be a need for US managers when all the techs are in India.

Pros

You have an IBM stamp on your resume.

Cons

1. Very very poor planning on the facilities in the new & state-of-the-art (huh, really !!!) building.
2. Plan to stay at this location for 2 years before you can move on to another opportunity within IBM.
3. Forget abt promotion for 2 years at this location.
4. New 'process' and 'framework' model really sucks.
5. Work From Home - SORRY, You have to be at this location (for what ???) even though all of your team is located acrosss the world.

Advice to Senior Management

Too many management layers. Get rid of some.

Pros

Flexible schedule and the ability to work remotely

Cons

Weak and indecisive first line managers, utilization, annual performance reports, job security, status quo (some projects are going to do this because they've always done it this way--blows me away), lack of innovation when it comes to internal policies, procedures, processes....paperwork nightmare just for the sake of paperwork (my opinion), benefits are not impressive...

Advice to Senior Management

Step up and talk to your employees! Give relevant FEEDBACK. Don't tell a person they're doing great all year and then hit them with a low PBC. Take time out your "precious day" to read email from your employees. I have never seen so many individuals in leadership positions unwilling to respond/answer email. A lot of, "I'll talk to you off the record" crap... Seems like most are afraid of losing their jobs.