IBM Boulder Reviews

Pros

Some awesome reasons working for IBM was they trusted to me to make big decisions with vital internal accounts. Always was on cutting edge technology for AIX & Zos platforms. Working from home was great.

Cons

Sometimes would work 80+ hours for issues or major changes with little compensation or acknowledgement. Last few years of down size, was wearing several hats, SME, DPE, BAM, Life Cycle, all to be replaced by cheaper unexpirenced folks hurting only customers satisfaction.

Advice to Management

I hope I get another position at IBM So we can use all the skills I learned while there.

Pros

lack of managers breathing down your neck

Cons

There is little to no communication between teams and from managers to employees. if you want to feel like a number. If you want to use outdated monitors and desk equipment There is a general culture of APATHY here. If you want to work where no one cares, work here.

Pros

Good flexibility and work life balance

Cons

Everything, they don't care about their employees at all - especially the ones that have been there the longest.

Pros

Great company to work for, good CEO and good work environment.

Cons

work life balance could be better

Pros

I am writing about my experience through Career Connection Incorporated at IBM near Boulder, CO. They had a good cafeteria. Sometimes, they let people work from home if it snowed. They did buy Red Hat Linux and have Watson, so if you get on one of those teams, you may have more security.

Cons

Stress and furloughs as a security and risk ID admnistrator. I was also forced to be on convoluted phone meetings which took me away from my actual work. When the best two aspects were the General Foods International Coffee Creamer and that my credit union was on site, it was time to run far and fast.

Advice to Management

Pay people more and warn of furloughs before hiring anyone. Hire directly and get rid of lame contracting companies.

Pros

Great company to start at out of college

Cons

After 15 years just want to cut costs and US resources

Advice to Management

Colocation is a bad idea

Pros

Can't think of anything good about this company other than a couple of their clients were good

Cons

Everything gets outsourced CEO is killing a once great and innovative company slowly as opposed to others like Karly Fiorina that drove theirs into the ground this broad is destroying it one foreign worker at a time

Advice to Management

Bring back an innovative American workforce before its too late

Pros

IBM hires people to work in Service Desk / Customer Service with very little or no experience. It is a decent way to get into tech and get experience working at a large corporation. If you have valuable talents and strive to learn, you will be given many different roles which will give you experience and bullet points on your resume.

Cons

The work environment gets very toxic in service desk. If you have talents they will abuse them and you won't get much of any raise or a different title. Leadership doesn't value much of anyone in service desk. If you try to apply elsewhere at IBM, management will often do whatever they can to sabotage your attempt at moving to a better job. They act like slave drivers, don't often listen to feedback given by agents... and talk very unprofessionally about employees behind their back.

Advice to Management

If someone has the skills and desire to move elsewhere at IBM, let them.. if you don't they'll just quit and find a company that actually values them. If you want to improve service desk, then try to have trust in the people under you, and believe in them and their success, because their success is the success of all of IBM and the success of IBM's clients.