IBM First Line Manager reviews

The relentless pursuit of aggressive EPS target, in the light of the economic recession, seems to be foolish and will cause the company and its shareholders to pay a commensurate price in the long run. There are more and more empty offices in the building. Equipments and computers needed for projects do not have budget. Employee training and education is now online to reduce the expenses. Travel is limited to customer function only. Indeed, how does the company post double digit growth in profit while its revenue is shrinking? Yes, aggressive expense management is the answer. In the micro environment, the division I belong to has leaders who are more business savvy than technical competence. So putting them in front of customers basically embarrasses us by saying or repeating what marketing tells them. More worrisome is the investment decision they make, throwing good money after failing products. A hierarchical company only works when its senior leadership makes the right call 51% of the time. It appears IBM senior leadership is mostly on the other side of the 50%.

Years of no raises, cost of benefits for a family of 4 at over $9000 per yr for employees, no respect for the people that are making the money for the company then giving huge raises and bonuses to upper level managenment and CEO. Layoff thousands of US employees while they continue to outsourse work to other countries and IBM as a company posted billions of dollars in profits.