IBM Reviews in Toronto, ON Area

Pros

A diverse set of roles are available for those looking to move within the company.
Significant opportunity to work with other Fortune 500 companies and clients.

Cons

The relative ranking system is now causing solid workers to be flagged as poor performers; someone has to do the grunt work.
Extremely difficult to move between software group brands or to different divisions.

Advice to Senior Management

Scrap the current individual relative ranking system for now in favor of a team based performance system combined with a 360 performance feedback for individuals leading to a blended performance result.
Significantly change the performance metric system every 5 years.

Pros

Resources upon resources at your disposal to learn the technology, markets and develop your selling skills. Great place to learn the business and develop professionalism and experience for enterprise technology sales.

Cons

Redundant processes and management cadence.

Pros

- A lot of smart people
- Opportunity to learn new stuff
- Size matters when it comes to the big jobs
- Pay is good
- work from home is totally OK

Cons

- Too much bureaucracy
- you are one of many
- attitude that everyone can be replaced
- career advancement dos not happen automatically

Advice to Senior Management

Promote the talent as a reward for the contribution. Words are not enough.

Pros

this is one of the biggest company and this company if highly related to my field which is electrical engineering,

Cons

i gained lot of coding experience and the have very profesional system, nice for the new grads student to practice.

Advice to Senior Management

i think they can try to reduce the time for process, since this is a very old company their processing system need to be discussed

Pros

Flexible. high moral, very diversified,

Cons

product specific job that might hinder growth

Advice to Senior Management

Take suggestion from mid level position

Pros

I like the job I have a good salery and i can abalance it with my home life and my kids are with me

Cons

sometime there is too much work and I am stresset but usually it's OK. The hours go by very slowly

Pros

Flexible work options - high quality people (intelectual capital)

Cons

loss of geography independance -qurterly bonus structure is incenting the wrong behaviour

Advice to Senior Management

get back to the basics

Pros

Challenging work. Fantastic People. Many different career paths. Opportunity to work with colleagues and clients around the globe. Leadership training. Working for talented, experienced individuals.

Cons

The biggest downside is the lack of autonomy -- at the individual level, the dept, even the country level. This can stifle innovation and personal growth. Lack of recognition and fun.

Advice to Senior Management

Look for ways to allow employees more freedom and support to do new things -- take risks. And recognize them for doing so.

Pros

You're always able to participate in emerging technology

Cons

long long hours, competing priorities with insufficient support

Pros

- Ability to work from home
- Flexible hours
- Proximity to home
- Good starting salary
- Quiet workplace

Cons

- Raises are minimal
- Bonuses are low
- Benefits are subpar for large company
- Teams are not funded for extra curricular activities

Advice to Senior Management

- A happy worker is a productive worker, so if salaries are fixed, then other perks should be offered
- Bottom up management rather than top down