Kyndryl has turn into a North-korea style dictatorship - Architect Kyndryl Employee Review

1.0
Jun 10, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

+10 years employee rolled over from IBM, All "pros" have evaporated. I'm looking for work eslewhere. Career opportunities are great if you want to drink their coolaid. Compensation is better than IBM, but you have to drink their DEI nonsense coolaid. Worklife is good if you have cancer or terminal diseases, otherwise a push to work a lot of OT. I don't recommend.

Cons

Prepare for completely monitoring and micro management. Cybersecurity is off the rails. There are lines of code I can't write without getting a strike.

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5.0
Jul 15, 2026
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Pros

good industry for retirement... very good managers

Cons

no new projects are not coming

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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