IBM reviews

Too many to list but here are my top 10 1. Way too much red tape and unecessary daily report building. It is like living in a Dilbert cartoon everyday. 2. Leadership and innovation is punished NOT rewarded. 3. Absolutely no fairness in raises or promotions. Advancement by pure kiss-ass. 4. Very little substance at the executive leadership level. 5. No respect for senior experience level employees and way too much focus on babies right out of MBA School. 6. Did I say poor executive management? 7. Layoffs of lower level people first and zero executives get fired. 8. Almost every senior executive that leaves IBM fails miserably in the real world. Do you see a trend here? Exception being John W. Thompson at Symantec. Maybe John should be running IBM right now! 9. Across IBM there is NO respect for the average employee and very little recognition. 10. Nepotism is rampant. Many executives get their families jobs and their buddies make sure that they get "choice" positions and promotions. Over-promotion and hiring of legacy employees is killing IBM. We are NOT a family owned business nor should we be.

Raises, most often below the rate of inflation, are few and far between. Benefits, like most everywhere else, are dwindiling. The company can no longer afford a decent benefit package because of the poor management decisions made in the past. Starting out as a person that very much enjoyed technical activities, I now create superflouous paperwork and engage in meaningless tasks that appear to be adding value in the eyes of my customer. CYA is the name of the game. If IBM looks good, then all is well, right?