IBM Reviews

Pros

good & flexible , you can learn yourself alot

Cons

politics & seniours not ready to help

Advice to Senior Management

managers are stupid

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

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.

Pros

Flexible working time
Good first line management in general

Cons

Low salary, Slow promotion, Rigid process

Pros

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

Cons

slow to weed out an occassional bad apple

Pros

1. Flexible work/life balance if you work on non-critical projects.
2. Excellent and open minded colleagues on the first line to work with.

Cons

1. If you work on critical projects, please prepare yourself to sacrifice your work/life balance, prepare yourself to work with the frequent high level management decision change.
2. Very poor employee recognition, unless you are a kissing-ass type of employee.

Advice to Senior Management

The management would not listen to any useful suggestions at this site. Look at the past several years, too many wrong decisions made.

Pros

Good access to IBM methods, and knowledge, access to plenty of courses and seminars

Cons

All projects are transferred to India, and done by offshore ressources. Senior management doesn't listen. Cost cutting has gone to far .

Pros

Training after a long time.

Cons

They promote the wrong people with no skills. They send the wrong people for training and the people who really needed are held back.

Advice to Senior Management

Have all accounts and ID's ready for your new employee to start working imediately. It should not take 4 to6 months to get ID's to do work.

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

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