"Big blue corporate red tape."
"IBM is an amazing company."
What do you like about working at IBM?
"Changing, dynamic, great people, work from home, fantastic cross-team support, excellent processes and procedures."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Whatever you're interviewing for now, you won't be doing it in two years. Interview for the division / culture, not the specific job / tasks."
What don't you like about working at IBM?
"When you'd find a job you loved, you'd end up getting booted out of it because of restructuring or outsourcing, and when that happened, you'd have to fight to get something, anything, even if you didn't particularly like it, just to keep working."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Overall, company was solidly pointed in the right direction and well managed. On an individual level, recognizing people's efforts and giving guidance before the fact rather than correction after the fact would go a long way."
What do you like about working at IBM?
"Some of the coolest projects around come from here. We have some of the best datasets, people, and networks on the planet."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Plenty of paths, but you have to steer yourself constantly, and often management is too busy just keeping up themselves to really help."
What don't you like about working at IBM?
"The workload precludes working on projects very much. They are reluctant to have any slack on staffing levels and its hard to get that project time to be effective."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"More rapid tools, more time to learn using the amazing amount of resources they have."
What do you like about working at IBM?
"The company was highly regimented and very process-driven, and I do appreciate order in my life."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Dress well, be relaxed, don't sweat the small stuff, smile."
What don't you like about working at IBM?
"The job itself was non-technical, and the company was huge, so there wasn't much mobility or innovation."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Don't stifle innovation, encourage creativity, remember that your people aren't cogs."
"All things considered, IBM has been an above avg employer, despite blemishes."
What do you like about working at IBM?
"Many bright and competent people, proud history and traditions, reasonable benefits."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"It helps to honestly demonstrate such things as (a) what you can do *for* the company, and (b) personal qualities such as long-term view and work ethic."
What don't you like about working at IBM?
"Sheer amount of fretting about things which you often cannot influence, but must document and track ad nauseum; a vast and dynamic set of rules to govern everything from business conduct to receiving pre-pre-pre-approval to purchase something; extensive efforts spent to squeeze every last cent of cost out and discourage spending - well beyond the point of diminishing returns."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"find ways to incite staff to achieve results without *some* of the pressure and cope with the multi-transitional environment."
"I have worked for IBM for nearly 3 years and my review is specific to the department I work in. My direct chain of management are fantastic, however because of the structure of our department I interact with potentially the worst executive in my experience. Because of that executives direction financial targets are put far before people, corners are constantly cut, everything is a last minute emergency, and fear drives outputs."
"I am amazed that IBM was ranked 37 in 2013. The work environment in this company is hostile and they are constantly looking for innovative ways to screw their employees."
"Sys Admin at IBM Global Consulting Services."
"IBM of OLD is no more. The blind leading the blind is the best to describe it now. Work-Life balance never existed."
"IBM took consistent advantage of their contractors and contracting companies. They repeatedly mandated reduced work-weeks, furloughs, and circuitous processes contributing to an overworked staff for particular environments. Additionally, due to the requirements of some work that employees work longer hours during a particular day, there were many occasions when the full team was unavailable for work at the end of the week, due to a complete ban on any overtime."
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