Public strategy sounds good, but still IBM culture and people - Director Kyndryl Employee Review

1.0
Oct 3, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

If you like a large company culture, a process and rules for every activity, and an environment like IBM in a smaller footprint, this is the place for you

Cons

Executive leadership runs company thru spreadsheets. All emphasis on finances...for Kyndryl. Internal politics takes priority over what's best for the client. Lots of slide ware without actual clients to reference. Everything takes 3x longer to do to navigate the bureaucracy.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Jun 22, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Remote work, vacation, coworkers are usually pretty chill, 3 months on the bench to look for a new job before you're laid off

Cons

10-11K planned to be laid off this year and they aren't going after the worst performers, they're just cutting out whatever section looks good in excel. Poor profitability. Constant reorgs. Say they're a flat organization but keep getting more and more vertical. the last manager I got transferred to took months to have a meeting with my group and when he did, it was only to let us know we were getting cut, never-mind that we had a presentation on how to save a couple million on a type of software license that the company had to have to do business. They still use a stacked ranking for employee review, so if your whole team had an outstanding year and surpassed every goal, only 5-10% will be graded as outstanding and 10-15% will get expects more. Even when I got into that 5-10% exceeds, the raise for that year was still only 2%. One year I got a promotion from band 4 to 5, still only a 2% raise. Your pay will be as flat as a plains state. After 15+ years in this company, it feels like leaving an abusive relationship. Yes, it's not all bad, but you have to recognize that it still wasn't good for you.

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