Well, I've been an IBMer for a while, and recently just got promoted. I've decided to join blind to make people aware of the kind of environment and career that you can expect from the company. 1 - You will stop learning and start losing skills. IBM is mainly legacy code, with old technologies and a complete lack of processes. You will not be in touch with any technology that is currently being used on the market, and the internal processes are a complete mess. If you are used to agile, or any other kind of methodology, stay away! You will delearn and start to live in a complete mess. 2 - Managers here, they don't have a clue on what is going on. The IBM managers don't know about the tech stack you work with, they don't have any management skills and what they do is basically go to meetings and fill useless spreadsheets. Managers here are a simple gate keeper, and majority of them, could be easilly fired with no consequences. 3 - Bureaucracy, endless bureaucracy Everything here is like a public department. It's basically impossible to delivery anything innovative, and the bureaucracy stops any kind of innovation, or improvement that you try to do! 4 - Lock in in technologies You cannot learn anything new! you will be forced to use IBM tech (that most part of the time is broken) and you will suffer with poor documentation, lac of support and lack of help from your team. HAve you ever asked why this company lost the Cloud run? Why? It is impossible to use IBM cloud! there is no documentation, no processes and it is broken most part of the time! 4 - Poor culture Keep it as it is is the company mantra! You cannot change or be innovative, nobody will agree or be willing to innovate with you! alongside it, the communication in the company is a mess! Nobody answers, there is no development process to communicate changes/update documentation, and the seniors usually refuses to help juniors! you will be by yourself! In summary: If you are looking for a place to get some rest, don't worry much with learning new skills and have a non competitive salary, that's the right place! other than this, RUN AWAY!
But you coast and don’t work much also Each action have equal and opposite pros and cons -Guru Newton
That is a major myth - I worked late nights and weekends frequently at IBM. It’s very team dependent.
The @suprstr is right... There is a lot of manual work to be done, tons of debugging and late nights to fix the code that was done by a 3rd party like Wipro. They literally vomit code, don't test and get paid. When the customer installs the software, voualah! An IBMer have to redo all the 3rd party work!
Come to adobe its filled with pathetic ibm leadership. Also *where
Everyone already knew this, but always appreciate genuine insight. Welcome to blind.
Sounds a lot like GM to me
How long have you been with IBM?
I've been here for almost 10 years now. Trying to find another company now, and this was when I realized how left behind I am. and that's what motivated my post.
I see all of these but also I've never worked more than 20 hours in a week so it's fine if you value having other hobbies and things that you enjoy outside of work
Definitely not the experience in Consulting arm of IBM, this shit is so rough you either perform or get insta PIPed
I agree that if you’re stuck on a team or in an org where you aren’t working on relevant and industry standard technology you should find another team within IBM or leave the company. That being said I don’t think blanket statements like this are appropriate. There are many individuals (myself included) who work on technologies and use frameworks very similar to our much better paid peers at FAANG.
I agree, especially in a lot of cases like mine where your team is actually aquired by IBM from another company.
I agree with this as well. It really depends on your org. I’ve continuously had opportunities to learn and work on relevant stuff that I enjoy. Products that our customers use and give us feedback on. Of course, there are times that have been shit, but you will get that anywhere.
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How would you compare IBM to NG in terms of growth
Just depends where you land in NG and where you want to go. I’ve seen people promoted, I’ve seen people same level, some go to fang, majority goes to other defense contractors. In terms of coding, also depends where you land. You either get stuck as a manual tester and work your way up to automation or you’re doing DevOps (tbh more like OPs), or you’re coding legacy crap but it’s still mostly “relevant”.