Good pay, benefits and people, too many hours - Engineer Kyndryl Employee Review

1.0
Mar 13, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Their pay is competitve and the benefits are adequate, although not as good as other large Tech companies. The people are great.

Cons

It's a very disorganized bureaucracy. You will be perpetually seeking the right resources, processes, and people within the company. Many of the "processes" are not well-defined or communicated internally. Most projects are allotted half the time they require or less, so there is plenty of unpaid overtime and weekend work for all. Given the workload, their pay isn't as good as it seems. Many of their customer solutions do not follow best practices within the Industry. This is to be expected, given the lack of processes and short deadlines. Vacation time is accrued through the year, but it cannot to be carried-over. How can you take that vacation time you accrue in December? Kyndryl has some of the best people that I've encountered, but it's also the worst job I've had outside of hourly work.

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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
CEO approval
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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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