IBM reviews

IBM continues to degrade in their treatment of employees. Business air travel has been eliminated. salary increases no longer are given to more than half of the population. Bonuses are but paltry crumbs. Overloading employees with unrealistic expectations and unreasonable deadlines is now the norm. personal/career development is nonexistent (becasue the execs don't care about it and thus don't place importance on it with their management team). cost cutting is deep and they are taking away ability to order basic supplies. Any hotel stays demand you stay at a hotel on a limited list (and that list is a pathetic selection of low rate/budget hotels. budget for recognition and awards for employees has been shut down. If you are considering working for IBM, I warn you... It will be a painful experience and you won't be treated with the level of respect you deserve. I spent 10 years including graduate education to have a job that was respectable. I never expected to be treated like this as a result of my hard work in earning my degrees. IBM should be ashamed of iself. The bean counters there don't give a rats ass about your quality of life and workplace experience. I can only hope more people write about the way they're being treated and perhaps word will get out and force something to change.

- You will be working for the IBM JDK.But your work will be mostly restricted to defects. - Your life is dependent on your - TL and Manager.Its mostly the manager though the opinion of TL counts to a very less extent.Some useless managers and TL's will screw your life. - Promotion is a rarity - only on a need basis you are promoted. - Performance judging is biased.Only people with rating 1 and 2+ who perform consistenly are promoted.People who get a rating 2 once might even get a 3 rating but not a 2+ - Work only in Core Java and C.That too you will work only on defects in the name of development.There are no trainings or anything given here.From day 1 you will be asked to work on defects.You will not get any deep understanding of any topic.Everyday you will be working on a different defect.Most of the work involves taking the sun code and porting.Work in JDK will be here till the end of this year.After that there is no clearcut picture of what you have in scope. - Not be using any J2EE related technologies or even databases ( as you are working for the JDK).Big minus as the outside market works a lot on J2EE. - More stress is there on Patents and IP. - Salaries are pathetic.Only Band 7B and Band 8 guys get a good salary.For Band 6A,6B and 7A salaries are pathetic. - No reimbursement of Broadband expenses - No free tea or coffee. -