IBM Visual Designer reviews

- Isolated team environment, everyone I worked with was remote. - IBM Design has little practice in creating a working formula for designers to succeed in a completely developer driven culture. - Management is a confused bunch of people that have a very hard time helping their team succeed. - IBM Design studio in Austin, TX is way overcrowded. I am sure that they are not meeting fire code standards. - Almost all products that you could work on are completely lame. Recruitment lies to your face throughout the process telling you that when being deployed onto a project they take what you would like to work on into consideration. - 3 month Design Camp is like a shortened college class that you get paid for. This was extremely boring and monotonous. - Most importantly : as a designer at IBM Design you have very little say on the projects you are creating. Everyone in the studio puts on a daily happy face as they are all hating the projects they work on and trying to do anything to switch products. This makes the workplace a horrid environment to be in daily, with very little work actually getting done.

isolation - as a telecommuter you work through project managers who are not the greatest communicators - project managers also do not understand the realm they are dealing with so they are unable to communicate in normal terms employed by the industry. Very rarely do contract employees ever receive commendations - and there are NEVER raises. Once you are hired on, you stick with that salary.