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    IBM Las Vegas Reviews

    Updated August 24, 2018
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    IBM CEO Virginia Rometty
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    • "Bad work life balance in the company" (in 1071 reviews)

    • "Low salary increments since last 2 years" (in 510 reviews)

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    1. "IBM Is The Best"

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      Current Employee - Warehouse Worker in Las Vegas, NV
      Current Employee - Warehouse Worker in Las Vegas, NV
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at IBM full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      Best experiences and products made here.

      Cons

      As of now I am satisfied

    2. Helpful (1)

      "Made 100% club in 2017, gone in March of 2018"

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      Former Employee - Analytics Portfolio Representative in Las Vegas, NV
      Former Employee - Analytics Portfolio Representative in Las Vegas, NV
      Doesn't Recommend
      Negative Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I worked at IBM full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      the brand makes it easy to get meetings and looks good on your resume. I made a lot of money.

      Cons

      It's a declining company with a layoff culture. Weak CEO. Lost the cloud war. They claim it's a performance culture. Could not be further from the truth. The place sucks the soul out of you.

      Advice to Management

      Get rid of Gini. Intimidation is no way to get the best out of people.

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    3. "Managing Consultant"

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      Current Employee - Managing Consultant in Las Vegas, NV
      Current Employee - Managing Consultant in Las Vegas, NV
      Disapproves of CEO

      I have been working at IBM full-time (More than 10 years)

      Pros

      Good Pay and benefits package, flexible work schedule

      Cons

      Constant travel, work life balance issues, many layoffs in recent years,

    4. "Great"

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      Former Employee - Employee in Las Vegas, NV
      Former Employee - Employee in Las Vegas, NV
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at IBM (More than 5 years)

      Pros

      Great fun exciting learning opportunity

      Cons

      Great interesting fun learning

      Advice to Management

      Great

    5. "Still a great place to work."

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Las Vegas, NV
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Las Vegas, NV
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at IBM (More than a year)

      Pros

      Exposure and ability to understnad and learn all business functions. Opportunities for advancement.

      Cons

      Innovation is great; time to market is still slow.

      Advice to Management

      Communicate with your teams, listen to and appreciate their ideas

    6. "Good Experience"

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      Former Employee - Software Engineer Intern in Las Vegas, NV
      Former Employee - Software Engineer Intern in Las Vegas, NV
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      Pros

      Large Company, good all around culture

      Cons

      Very Large Teams, Teams all over the world. difficult to efficiently communicate

      Advice to Management

      N/A

    7. "I worked as a Senior Architect for Global Security Services which took all of my time, even weekends."

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      Current Employee - Senior Security Architect in Las Vegas, NV
      Current Employee - Senior Security Architect in Las Vegas, NV
      Recommends
      Neutral Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at IBM full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      The best reasons to work here is that you are the tip of the spear when in comes to Information Security.

      Cons

      A work/life balance as with the traveling and administrative work it is a 7 days per week, which no time to make appointments as you do not know where you will be from week to week.

      Advice to Management

      Team building would be my number one goal, as well as ensuring the same message is put out. The Administrative side will not help you and send you in numerous directions costing time and money.

    8. "Since outsourced to IBM in 2013, my experience has been positive"

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      Current Employee - Tech Services in Las Vegas, NV
      Current Employee - Tech Services in Las Vegas, NV
      Recommends
      Neutral Outlook

      I have been working at IBM full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      WAH, new experiences, good coworkers

      Cons

      Potential layoffs, and Managers with attitude.

      Advice to Management

      Develop more people-skills in 1st-line Managers. Improve Intranet search capabilities so newbies can find information faster (see google). Develop people skills in 1st line managers/SDMs.

    9. "Not what it was some years ago"

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      Current Employee - Account Manager in Las Vegas, NV
      Current Employee - Account Manager in Las Vegas, NV
      No opinion of CEO

      Pros

      brand recognition
      Great products
      Very solid company
      Life time employment

      Cons

      Big bureaucracy
      Below the average salaries
      Too many people, hard to grow among big number of internal competition
      Politics
      You are seen as a number, not really a person.

      Advice to Management

      Simplify processes
      Make managers to be real people managers, not a cheap sales managers

    10. Helpful (3)

      "IBM GBS needs more PROS at the project level and less CONS at the Partner Level."

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      Former Employee - Senior Managing CRM Consultant in Las Vegas, NV
      Former Employee - Senior Managing CRM Consultant in Las Vegas, NV
      Recommends

      Pros

      Project work was very rewarding and I was able to work with many outstanding and smart people during my 8 1/2 years at IBM GBS some of whom remain friends today. With a handful of exceptions, our project managers were nothing short of magicians in the way they balanced customer satisfaction, profitability, and teamwork. They were often handed projects that were D.O.A. and they revived them with some CPR and hard work to finally deliver a healthy patient.

      Cons

      Project discipline and methodology changed from project to project because the fixed price deals and their delivery dates being signed by IBM sales were often impossible to deliver successfully without many project change requests and schedule slippages. Additionally, IBM sales teams got paid on the PROJECTED profitability of the deals UP FRONT and their input and clarifications frequently disappeared after the deal was signed. The IBM matrix management culture simply does not work. Your direct report manager may not even work in the same discipline as you do and cannot provide fair feedback about your performance. It is the exception and not the rule that you work on a project your blue pages (direct report) manager even knows about. You were given very high utilization targets (83-89%) which made you a target for layoff if you were on the bench and prevented you from taking time off if your utilization was below par. Additionally, the consulting business model is moving toward greater reliance on off-shore resources which keep IBM rates competitive but has an unnecessarily downward impact on successful project delivery.

      Advice to Management

      Pay sales on profitability of the completed project. Involve consultants earlier in the sales process who will also be working on the project. Assign blue pages managers for the long run so that they get to know their assignees. I had 13 different blue pages managers in 8 1/2 years. Two of them were my blue pages manager for two years each! That's a lot of revolving doors of management to overcome in order to get a fair and balanced evaluation. Finally, review and revamp the year end evaluation process by removing the quota system for rewarding rating points by removing the cap on the number of people who can receive upper level evaluations. Additionally, provide a financial bonus pool by individual project based on factors such as profitability, customer satisfaction by consultant, number and quality of deliverables by consultant, and other metrics and allow project manager and team lead input into the evaluation and allocation process.

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