IBM reviews

Huge cultural shift over the past 0-5 years where the employee is just a commodity. You are nothing else but a commodity. You can be the hardest worker; you can get great performance reviews. But if you're in the wrong place in this vast company, and your data points turn up positive in an algorithm selecting employees for layoff, you will be hit. No quarter. All cards are stacked against you except if you are college hire to mid career lower salary. As an individual contributor (less if you are a manager, but still happens), you will be eventually laid off. So, employee culture is pretty much hollowed out -- lots of grim faces because of the packed conditions in the office, rolling layoffs, and RTO mandates. So sad, but true. I hope IBM can find its way again and start investing in people by letting them grow a career there again. But the powerful short-term (Q2Q) financial chess game rules at IBM. You'll run into some wonderful people there, tho! The best!

Anytime you move positions, you take an 18% pay cut in salary, even if it is a promotion. If you have an issue with management and that person in management is highly connected, IBM will keep them safe first, not you. HR is not HR, they are an extension of legal. Your job at IBM depends on whether or not you have a good boss and who works above you. IBM as a company does nothing beyond what is in their best interest. They lack complete moral accountability. I watched directors harrass sales representatives, show favoritism and engage in retaliation and nothing was done about it.