Of course there is not much room here to grow a career, when the company itself is not growing. My opinion is that when a company doesn't grow, then it is dying. I hope I'm not right, but I'm really interested in whether IBM will continue to stagnate or will it eventually manage to revive growth and recover?
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Nah, it's not the name association. That thing was over 2 decades ago.
It's because there's a huge cost associated with migration and customers are stuck buying ibm in cases like mainframes.
They all hate that there's no alternatives and lot of them incurred huge costs to move to x86, cloud etc.
Infact, customers don't really like ibm that much anymore
IBM develops awful software. I can't think of one IBM product for which there isn't a better (and usually free!) alternative. Why people still buy IBM software boggles my mind. It must be the name association.
Forgot to add - 3 of my 6 years xp is IBM lol.
A manager/lifer? You really don't think I'm a sea of 400k+ IBMers that maybe not everyone agrees with you? That's impressive, I wish I had that level of ignorance. I'm a band 8 software dev who uses nothing but cloud and Linux all day. I'm truly sorry your job is awful, mine isn't. YMMV
IBM is a close to death company that continues to hireyoung incompetent workers, while maintaining a senile management team who continue to sleep at home.
IBM Research is not 1/10th of what it used to be. Most of the best left years ago to Google, Apple, Microsoft, and other places. As for marketing failures, very true, but that has never been Research's task. Research's change in direction was imposed from the top, at the end of Palmisano and early Rometty era, and has been downhill since.
Lol we have got an ibm manager/lifer ladies and gents.
ibm research isn't doing anything that others haven't already explored and are way ahead of ibm.
All the patents that ibm make aren't to support any real product but to generate revenues without actually building/managing any team of people.
Ibm has to buy companies to even collect any relevant data which it can use (example: the weather channel), that's how bad it has gotten here.
Isn't a tech company? What pray tell, do you define a tech company? One who's worth a lot of stock and throws ads at you all the day long? Whoa lookout. Tech. IBM may su*k as a cloud company, but IBM Research has been pumping key inventions out time and time again for decades. They literally invent the next chip every single time. They're just not good at bringing to market just about anything.
Forget about growth, ibm isn't even a tech company.
What business would they grow? Mainframes? LMAO
@OP is right in that there is no growth and the company is dying. But OP missed the fact execs careers are growing, and only for them moving upward seems possible. You see the so many posts "please congratulate x-x for his/her promotion to VP/GM of yyy" all the time!
Been a while but I'll take a crack.
Under better leadership we wouldn't be in this situation.
Too often...
Too often I've wondered how these leaders made the decisions they have.
Someday they'll get what they have coming.
Except Ginni, who was given to most generous of golden parachutes.
Xactly where it goes nobody know
The ship has sunk. Let’s move on people…nothing to see here.
We care for the lost souls who still work here
HR will be sending out a memo next week asking all younger (and hipper) employees to buttsex as many dinobabies as they can.
Those are the key to the new strategy?
https://alchetron.com/Dino-Babies
Didn't it buy Red Hat because was putting its bet on Linux and Linux-based virtualization and containerization. Let us see if it will prosper with this bet.. Of course if it cannot get rid of the dino-babies it is doomed..