IBM Advisory Software Developer reviews

IBM's intent is to offshore many jobs in the US. This results in high performing employees, in addition to lower performers, being laid off to move much of the highly technical work oversees. IBM used to provide a lot of training for employees in order to maintain current skills and allow folks to upgrade into new technologies. Over that past several years education has been curtailed to increase earnings per share in a decreasing revenue environment. Few and far between pay raises/promotions for expected work load. When I first started with IBM management and executives were engaged with employees. Under the current CEO management has become isolated from employees. The result is a work force that has no general direction or input into product/development cycles. It also displays itself in lack of innovation in products as the folks in the trenches no longer have input in the design processes. To sum it up I have told my children to look at IBM as an employer of last resort.

- Competition among people in the same team, no team spirit possible - Technical expertise is completely ignored. You'd better be a good talker and in front of the customers rather than a good developper actually producing something. - Career is something that's very much talked about, but not much is done. And nothing is done wrt to technical expertise.