IBM reviews

You have to go to the office 3 times a week wasting fuel, polluting, wasting time, even when you have nobody to talk to the whole day. It is not a nice work environment, they implemented a high performance culture which basically was a way to push employees to do more, testers had to become developers, L3 support, develop automation, developers had to become testers, do test automation, L3 support, so everybody had to do everything, and manager roles didn't change that much they just had to push their employees more, if you don't do everything even if you are good at what you do, you are in the line to be fired. You also have to compete against people from all over the world. Your salary most likely will never increase, it will only be adjusted to inflation unless you are a great top performer. I exceeded expectation several years and I never really saw a big difference in my salary.

Huge cultural shift over the past 0-5 years where the employee is just a commodity. You are nothing else but a commodity. You can be the hardest worker; you can get great performance reviews. But if you're in the wrong place in this vast company, and your data points turn up positive in an algorithm selecting employees for layoff, you will be hit. No quarter. All cards are stacked against you except if you are college hire to mid career lower salary. As an individual contributor (less if you are a manager, but still happens), you will be eventually laid off. So, employee culture is pretty much hollowed out -- lots of grim faces because of the packed conditions in the office, rolling layoffs, and RTO mandates. So sad, but true. I hope IBM can find its way again and start investing in people by letting them grow a career there again. But the powerful short-term (Q2Q) financial chess game rules at IBM. You'll run into some wonderful people there, tho! The best!