IBM Associate Partner reviews

The company is under pressure and the response has been excessive focus on cost rather than growing revenue. This is driven by a need to meet quarterly figures and has jeopardised the long term health of the company. Years of meeting figures through underinvestment, travel bans, cutting employee compensation (especially through lack of or minuscule bonuses and decreased benefits), cancelling training, moving jobs to India, etc. have put the company in a poor position to compete. Extreme miserliness has destroyed morale. This is a company that has removed all office supplies and cut the janitorial staff so much that rat traps are now required to control a vermin problem. Span of control is so large that career development and coaching is pretty much non existent.

People are no longer to live the values that the company espouses and be successful. Measurements and cultural environment are in conflict with that. 2015 roadmap is not helping. Working for IBM abroad is very different than the US. Your career will be impacted and not necessarily positively but if global experience is important to you, IBM is one of the places where you can get international opportunities. The pressure to deliver the numbers sometimes means that people are cutting corners on integrity. Management turns a blind eye if the numbers come in. In countries where labor laws are not enforced, IBM provides the least they can get away with. Employees are often left with dipping in their pockets to get work done as processes abroad are inadequate and slow. Senior Management seems to be getting less and less able to take calculated risks for the company so no air cover for employees on the front line. Seems there is an air of desperation rather than confidence. IBM is more tolerant of abusive behavior towards employees especially in sales roles. This is different than when I joined IBM.