Spoke with several band 10's who have been placed on PIP's in IBM Consulting recently. Could this be a new layoff action coming up?
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B10 AP is a shxtty job with uncompetitive pay so I doubt PIPed people are that sorry. They will easily get a new job with higher pay outside.
Band 10 you have a target on your back. I took a band 10 knowing I was going to retire in 3 months. I sat on band 9 for 5 years so they would leave me alone.
"Most managers in IBM are totally useless and clueless"
Most managers in IBM Consulting are totally useless and clueless. Time to purge!
The system has major issues. Band 10 Associate Partner level gets scrutinise for everything. Metrics are unevenly distributed by distributed so it will be a merger of time of more layoffs
Hearing it's mostly Band 10s/Ds in Consulting that haven't met signings/revenue targets over last 12-18 months. Bye.
It’s just IBM deciding which businesses they want to be in. NOTE this applies to all three divisions (Consulting, SW, and Infrastructure) GBS used to consult across 22 industries. New IBM wants to consult across 10-12 industries max. IBM used to be in the super computer game Not anymore as it didn’t make money. How many SW products overlap with new Redhat LINUX offerings? It’s all about exploiting the IBM mainframe monopoly and the supporting SW and services. The places where IBM doesn’t want to play (even if they make money) is where IBM will partner and exercise their IP content. IBM has to slim down as their overhead is far higher than partners and competitors, , THUS if your practice/product has a weaker profit margin, IBM had to find a way to extract profit while eliminating cost. Exploiting partners, and IBM’s IP content is the way to do that. IBM is driving towards 300k of revenue per employee. They will let that metric decide where the employee head count will land. Most likely 180-200k employees worldwide.
ibm is screwed anyway