Layoffs at IBM are testimonies of the failure, the incompetence and the corruption at all levels of leadership.
No leader is exempt from the blame. First and foremost, the technical leadership that fail into mediocrity and produces subpar products.
US technical leadership produces garbage, that is not technically competitive. In order to sell it, lowering the cost price is required,
The executive leadership found an easy and stupid way, offshore the work to India.
Now, leadership get fat bonuses, customers get garbage and US employees get the boot.
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Here is Arvind getting caught red handed being racist similar to the recent Signal scandal and incompetence. The place reeks of vileness.
https://x.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1734374423124176944
This is clearly against US Law and the Civil Rights Act Title VII of 1964 but has been swept under the rug by IBM.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, s-x, or national origin. It also prohibits retaliation against individuals who file complaints or participate in investigations of discrimination. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) enforces Title VII, investigating discrimination complaints and attempting to resolve them through conciliation, according to EEOC.
The mass outsourcing began with Sam Palmisano, not with Ginni. There are so much hate on her - some of which is deserved - but Sam is the original piece of sh-t. (You can even take it back to Lou. But I doubt he ever intended us to end up here whereas that was always Sam's plan.)
Part of why resist all of the negative dumping on Ginni is Is because she actually did make some really great moves. She invested heavily in design and UX research which are the key differentiates between sh---y products and great products.
Arvind is a a complete total piece of sh-t with absolutely no vision of his own. He is probably the only person I wouldn't mind seeing shipped off to El Salvadoran prison but that will never happen. Trump only likes to imprison innocent people and without due process. Arvind is a traitor and is personally responsible for making our products, shittier and shittier. Because he's a piece of sh-t he is determined to make sure that our products become pieces of sh-t too. Fu-k Arvind and fu-k his entire leadership team.
It has nothing to do with blame, cause it’s just part of the overall game plan. It all started with Ginni, who so strangely has been kept around, for what reason, who knows.
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You seem to be unaware of the impact of Google o life.
Without google map and its GPS tracking, millions of car drivers will be disoriented.
Without Google Pay, most retail economy in India collapses.
So, in 20 years, Google was able to position itself from a search engine to become a key tool in 100 of millions of people.
At the same time, IBM shrunk to become a dinosaur on its way to extinction.
Yes, what does really Google provides from a Business perspective? Search, NO! Maps, NO! Gmail. maybe. Some Cloud Compute stuff, OK, but that can be replaced.
So, yes, if Google were to disappear tomorrow, the business world will go on without a hitch!
Now compared that with IBM... What if IBM were to disappear in an instant today along with all the deployed IBM hardware and software... Well, guess what... the world would stop running in that instant.
Banking, Insurance, Travel, Transportation, Retail, and the list goes on... would stop their operations.
It would be misery all over... for sure!
'where as Google generated $1.92 million.'
google is a giant stock scam much like beta
if those 2 disappeared tomorrow our lives would probably improve
Yes Alvind, no one works harder than you at cheating to get the mega bonuses of the order $100 million in 2026 ; no one else gets that sort of money except in their dreams...but do you have to sit and wolf down so much of that awful Vindaloo curry all day ? Your office smells worse down than a clogged public drain in the middle of Benglaru.
Nobody works harder than IBM Management, so the layoffs are YOUR fault. Yes, YOU should have worked harder. Now the company is in trouble and we have to get rid of YOU and all YOUR slackoff IBMer peers.
I’m not sure it’s quite that simple. In addition to everything op said, IBM hit the bad side of scale. I think all big tech is in a way, except the difference with IBM is they hit it over a decade ago.
I’m astonished that it takes three quarters to deliver basic features, I’m astonished there is zero pathway for SaaS models - it’s like working in the stone age. What little scraps of ‘product’ is produced isn’t enough to feed the big blue machine.
The only reason ibm is surviving is its size, which is also the thing that’s slowly ki-ling it. IBM generates $202,620 in revenue per employee in 2024, where as Google generated $1.92 million.
Leadership in ibm are not just responsible for the terrible ‘products’ they are also responsible for how the business scales. They are doing an equally bad job at both.
Between ripping out teams that make us competitive like UX and research, and outsourcing to India things won’t improve. No disrespect to anyone from the India geo, but the general trend I’m seeing is everyone having a tough bedding down period. The tech scene isn’t as mature as the us and while the skills exist in the geo, quality and standards have to be communicated which is causing massive delays and shipping poorer quality - if you get to ship.
This is a game of decades for ibm.