IBM Testing Services Manager reviews

- Continuous cost saving measure from IBM. - Compare to our company before acquired by IBM: No Christmas dinner, no free annual team lunch, increase working hours from 7.5hrs to 8 hrs, family with children have to pay $380/year to get 80% of extended health insurance (we paid $0 to get 90% before IBM), annaul layoff in March no matter a double digit increase of sales in our division, no more training that cost money, only allow online free training. - Company earning is more important than employee. - Many tedious process. ie: you have to take the same security online course very year, online Business Conduct Guildlines course every year.

IBM is at the same time a very old, conservative, and slow moving company. You don't hear IBM go crazy with new ideas everyday, because they don't do that. Decisions are made only after going through a maze of hierarchy and bureaucracy and you, as a regular employee, constitute an extremely tiny piece of this huge company. If you do not go up the corporate ladder (which is a pretty hard thing to do at IBM), then you are very much replaceable by just about anybody else. You may feel that at an entry level job, you are small, and--to avoid saying unimportant--of little importance to the overall being of the company. I guess IBM makes the most sense to people who are extremely research oriented, or would love to have a stable job to stick to for years and decades.