IBM Las Vegas Reviews

Pros

Best experiences and products made here.

Pros

Good Pay and benefits package, flexible work schedule

Pros

Great fun exciting learning opportunity

Advice to Management

Great

Pros

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

Advice to Management

Communicate with your teams, listen to and appreciate their ideas

Pros

Large Company, good all around culture

Advice to Management

N/A

Pros

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

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.

Pros

WAH, new experiences, good coworkers

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

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 to finally deliver a healthy patient.

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.

Pros

Great for work/life balance
Competitive benefit package, but starting to become less so
opportunities to grow knowledge
tons of open resources for education and technology growth for those who are self motivated

Advice to Management

Employees who do not do their job seldom are removed from their position, in particular when it negatively effects their co-workers. This mentality would need to change for IBM to grow as an organization and become more efficient at its core competencies.