Not that I think too highly of myself, but unlike just a few years back, IBM has gone terribly backwards. The colleagues I started working with were people with knowledge and spirit. Now I work with a bunch of ambitious mediocrities. How it happened that one forward thinking company turned into this so quickly, I don't think I will ever understand?
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@8ngh not arguing the dead part but JW left because he wanted to become a CEO and that didn't happen at IBM at least not before he left.
IBM is a dead not worth anything company. Why do you think JW ran away?
IBM reminds me of the consultancies: lots of offshore cheap resources and onshore expensive resources, used to baffle the c-suite with bu-----t. More and more skillsets are now with offshore resources, the remaining people onshore only skilled in Excel and Powerpoint. And playing political game and brown-nosing to stay alive and/or screwing all the way to the top. It's a shame if you want to develop technical skills, you can't stay there for long.
It’s a stock buybacks company.
Im just here to build some experience in the new job role I took this past year. My plan was to milk this job role for 18-24 months then go someplace I can be proud of whose products I actually believe in. IBM's products suck, and the market knows this.
IBM is still living with delusions of grandeur. They publish papers claiming quantum this and 2nm that, but those are just that - papers. There is no chance any of these things are going to translate into company saving products in time to make a difference. They cling on to Mainframe like we still live in the 1960s. It’s a dinosaur that seems incapable of moving with the times. I gave it a fair shot but it became clear that there was no way forward. Until IBM wake up and start living in reality, this will continue, and only get worse.
IBM hasnt been forward looking since S360 in 1964. Since then its been a long slow downward slide as the company just got more bloated and stupider, and here we are in 2021, completely irrelevant .
Poor mgt decisions…plain and simple!!!
From the time I was outsourced started with Sam Palmisano that put stocks and dividends in front of growing the company. You knew when RA's were coming during his time cause he reported to wall street and you saw the stock price jump. He always said the cloud would never take off and wouldn't invest. Then Ginni took over following
Sam's footsteps and threw around a few cloud words she picked up. All you see now is revenue dropping and giving the investors the return they were promised.
Nepotism at its worst. 3 and 4 Generations. Connecticunt is full of them.
It is simple. IBM is not attractive to work for and capable IBMers sooner or later leave to work for other companies that pay more or offer more interesting jobs.... over time the most capable are all gone.
The problem with IBM Management is that they suffer from delusions of grandeur. They started believing their own lies that they're the most important constituency at IBM, and that somehow, they're the only folks who create value in the company. When, in fact, the primary value-creators are actually the highly experienced technical people who take decades to grow ... the same people that Management and HR have decided they can't fire fast enough. So, what we're left with is a bunch of clueless, delusional Baron Munchausens, who have never written a line of code, designed a circuit, or done anything else of value. 😒
In my opinion, IBM is not even a company to work for nowadays. Useless upper management.
looking at linkedin all I see is Indian university grads accepting IBM positions, so IBM are investing heavily in India. Cheap good resources, but with little experience.
I think that what started it was "Road Ki-l 2015" But there could be many other reasons.