IBM reviews

Company too big, too much paperwork , useless reviews (PBC-IDP-Half year review, etc...) . CEO Just focus on the next quarter result. Outsourcing resources to cheaper foreign countries is the main objective. Software group managers are not aware of the real world challenges.

The sheer level of bureaucracy is overwhelming, and on the rise. Immediate management have had almost all discretion removed and simply obey what "the corporation" demands. Career progression is often through a series of box ticking and being seen in the right places rather than objectively. Bonus and salary increases are governed by the all powerful and thoroughly pointless "Personal Business Commitments" process and associated review, however managers are being increasingly given targets and asked to award on a curve - thus a highly performing team's members are pitted against each other, and a low performing team's members are also pitted against each other. Once the dust settles, it is easy for the more lowly ranked members of a good team to be worse off than the one eyed man performer from the low performing team's Kingdom of the Blind.