IBM Hardware Development Manager reviews

Big company No place to enhance skills as the upper management does all stuff

Everything is driven by the EPS goals of the 2015 roadmap which results in some extreme measures. Office supplies are barely/not provided any longer, offices are only cleaned once a quarter, all assistants have been consolidated into a few positions of site. People are providing their own IT equipment because getting anything (docking station, keyboard, extra power supply) beyond the basic laptop is subject of budgeting scrutiny. Due to the constant cost cutting, there have been many rounds of layoffs affecting even solidly contributing employees which results in the remaining team having to cover even more work and there's no adjusting of deadlines due to this either. At the same time the management team preaches that "innovation matters" but there is really no time provided to pursue new ideas and even if you had a great new idea, there's no system for providing awards to employees anymore except for large corporate level awards. Training is only provided in the form of free online classes, conference travel is sometimes possible but only if one has a paper to present at the conference.