Recently been acquired into GBS and need to understand what I might be getting myself into. Our mid sized firm was acquired for my division, how is GBS? What do I need to prepare for? Should I be jumping ship ASAP?
Jump ship. They will lay you off within the next 2 years. I know this from first hand experience
I’m in GBS. It is absolutely dreadful. Lazy boomer leadership is killing the company and attrition is sky high and unsustainable. Clients all unequivocally hate us and competitors are laughing at us. Benefits are abysmal if you haven’t already gotten the briefing. You should absolutely be looking to get out immediately.
I agree with everything here, start planning to get out right now.
Thanks I'm intermediate/mid level. Leaving my current company would be a pretty drastic paycut ~25-30% currently or 40-60% if i were to take my retention offer in base alone and leave after 1yr, hard pill to swallow Reference -- in Canada and being paid USD level comp.
I’m an exec. I’m telling you- get out ASAP. FAANG will pay in Canada if you’re good.
Thanks, guess I'll reach out to my connections and also leverage some kind souls on Blind for referrals
I was with IBM GBS. A shinking ship and a shit hole. Very poor leadership and very painful to survive there. I m sure they will fire u soon if you are part of merger. Get out of GBS asap
Are you at Taos as well? Just curious. I also just got hired recently and now I'm possibly regretting my decision. 😅
Yeah same company
Did manager tell you your future band yet?
Regardless of what they told you Taos is going to be choked out and integrated and you won’t have any impact on IBM. Red Hat was the biggest acquisition and…bye Jim.
In that case, I'm open to referrals here if anyone wants to help save me. Will send my LinkedIn to review, 5yoe, senior level doing DevOps and AWS infrastructure engineering. Feel free to reply or DM. Currently interviewing at 5 places, some big tech, some midsized
GBS is a consultancy sector of IBM. You will be mostly working on IBM external project with client. Prepare to work with remote team and incompetent leadership/management. The way GBS work with client is that their contract time based. They want to 1. Increase length of contract, 2. Keep client from jumping ship. To maintain a project in a slow but acceptable speed is common. If you are in middle of your career and know how things are doing. You should leave ASAP. If you are in early career, stay less than 2 years.