IBM Las Vegas Reviews

Pros

Best experiences and products made here.

Cons

As of now I am satisfied

Pros

Good Pay and benefits package, flexible work schedule

Cons

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

Pros

Great fun exciting learning opportunity

Cons

Great interesting fun learning

Advice to Management

Great

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

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

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.

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

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...

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...

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...