IBM reviews

* What IBM says publicly does not match how they actually manage their business. If you care about honesty and long term success, IBM will not work for you. * IBM is totally focused on short term results. This is frequently achievable only through constant cost-cutting, making it impossible to produce competitive products, particularly those that require long term vision and development. * This cost-cutting approaches ridiculous extremes. By the time I left IBM, it was essentially impossible to acquire extra RAM for my workstation. I had to buy my own copies of productivity software such as MS Office so that I could work with the formats required by our customers. * IBM incentivizes upper management to change positions frequently. This results in those execs having no long-term investment in their business unit. * IBM does not support remote employees. Yet at the same time, they build teams consisting of people from multiple time zones, requiring everyone to be on conference calls all day and work ridiculous hours.

The company has mass lay offs frequently. Almost half of their employees are on contract, most of whom have been let go from their full time roles, only to be brought back on contract three months later. All this while the CEO draws 32 million dollars a year in salary and writes herself a check of around 3 millions dollars as "bonus". How can she get a bonus when the company is performing badly and the other employees don't get any?!