Lower middle/middle class vs upper middle class.
Enough said.
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You need to compare the cohorts:
1- Boomer waiting for magic number, retiring but twidling thumbs all day long
2- New grad, clueless but coming to their senses and sucking up experience and jumping ship at the earliest occasion
3- Psychopathic climber, who finds the perfect environment to throw people under the buss and brow-nose every high-flying boss going to the top
4- Sane employee doing 3x the work and wondering what happened to technical skills
All consumer interactions are through a website, think about anything and it has website associated with it.
Website just doesn't mean front-end page you see but everything including full-stack, any cloud, hybrid orchestration or on prem. Hw is generally considered commodity in this sense but you have shown your age with your comment if you think everything isn't a website or an app.
Ibm has nothing to offer at any level of stack above because it's all about platforms now, whoever wins the customer on their platform can offer similar software at any layer.
Ibm only has a declining platform in mainframes.
Whoever mentioned everything's done thru a website really doesn't understand the dozens of layers of software / hardware involved in every single action. No, a website is only a piece in a sea of things happening all at once.
Unless IBM addresses their layers of excessive management, this company is going no where fast. IBM slimmed the overhead down back in the 90’s, but it has crept back into the culture and needs to be removed yet again. It’s not a technical issue with IBM especially when it comes to “enterprise”, but rather a cultural issue of making the hard call when it comes to overhead. IBM could afford the top heavy overhead when they were the only game in town. Those days are long gone, and AK needs to make some hard management personnel decisions. If they are going to keep the 3 divisions as listed (Consulting, SW, and Infrastructure) they will have to structure the staffing to get 2X more efficient. YEP that means non-producers (think management) takes the hit
Mo--ns become PM's with no tech experience here.
We are flooded with PM's and they are useless.
@1kzd+1dFuBZEv yo boomer major tech companies are websites because everything is done through them.
Otherwise they wouldn't have grown to be such mammoths
I'm still amazed nowadays that "Tech Company" is defined by wall street instead of the kind of products they produce. Most "tech companies" post dot com bo-m are literally websites. Whooooa. Cool company you've got a website. Oh your website makes a lot of rich people even richer thru their stock? Whooooa. Nice tech.
When you say "other tech companies" it almost sounds like you consider IBM to be a tech company.
Now McD, Taco bell etc. pay equally like ibm.