IBM Reviews

Pros

Salary and benefits are competitive
People I worked with were some of the best
Lots of interesting and challenging work

Cons

Company always trying to streamline work and become more efficient, this always resulted in more work with less people and longer hours.
A lot of hard work put into standardizing processes which results into easy migration of the work overseas.

Advice to Senior Management

Try being more considerate to your employees your have instead of the bottom dollar. I feel this strategy of landing IT support contracts, streamlining then outsourcing overseas will backfire. I am see more and more companies now moving there support back to the US where it belongs.

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

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

If agreed with Manager you can work from home couple days a week.
Good location of Moscow office, big open space, big tables, overall good working conditions.
80% of mobile services and medical ensurance are paid by the company.
On certain positions you can do almost nothing and get paid good for that.

Cons

I.B.M. - "It's better manual"! No useful applications with user-friednly interface to work with. Not a software company at all! Everything is done manually and as far as people make mistakes other people are employed to control the first ones and some other people to control the second ones and so on and so on.
A lot of people who work in a company for 10-15-20 years, who are not ready for changes, are even afraid of young dynamic newcommers.
Manegement is more about politics, image, ompression, moving themselves forward than about truthfull forecats, carying for employees, there work-life balance, etc. Friends bonuses/promotion mostly.
Very bureacratic. Everything takes a very-very long time.
Boring. Boring to be on that "certain position" and feel like you're wasting your time, using only 10% of your barin capabilities, sitting in the office doing nothing, just waiting in case your Manager needs some help. At IBM you either work 24x7 or do almost nothing.
Ability to work abroad or completely change your career path is declared, but rarely fullfilled.

Advice to Senior Management

Become open to changes, inspire creative ideas, creative approach to work and processes, promote young and dynamic, look around (i.e. outside IBM) and inspire all managers on all levels to do the same. Finally load your software development programmers and write user-friendly software for finance forecasting at least or buy that software!

Pros

Good opportunities
Not much pressure
Learn new technologies

Cons

Not much to add except lots of processes

Advice to Senior Management

None

Pros

many talented people, good balance of work and life, pay is good, people are nice, benefit is good.

Cons

too many legacy systems to maintain and rules to follow,
too many managers

Advice to Senior Management

trim down the management, introduce more cool stuff

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

good salary for the area.

Cons

Get the work out of you more than they pay you .

Pros

IBM has a pretty great benefits package. In addition, if you're *very* lucky, you have the chance to do some cutting edge development or research.

Cons

IBM is very much a bloated corporation. There is insufficient attrition of poor quality workers and a lack of inspirational vision from the leadership.