Aimless, scattered, hostile Pros There's only one benefit when working with IBM - work from home. And that makes it all worthwhile for many. Unfortunately, they know this, and hold you and your family hostage with low salary, no pay raises... — read more 

http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/19/technology/watson-conference-call/

http://www.pressconnects.com/story/news/2016/05/20/birth-defects-pollution-study-ibm-endicott-tce/84500904/

Back in 2012 or so, Oracle announced they were dropping HP Itanium support. I thought this would be a great opportunity for IBM to win some business by affirming IBM software had no plans to also drop Itanium support. To that end, and with the best... — read more 

I was dumped last summer. 63 yrs old... 20+ yrs of service... No 'real' pension ( lost that when the rules changed in 1999) nothing matters to them! Everyone let go in the past two decades were top performers. We gave our heart to the company. Age... — read more 

I just received a call today from my mother telling me that IBM laid off my father after 36 years of donating his blood sweat and tears to these scumbags. All they did to this poor man over time is screw him, and screw him some more. First they cut... — read more 

For those getting RA'd today, please read the Cringely article at http://www.cringely.com/2016/04/06/is-ibm-guilty-of-age-discrimination-part-2/ File an EEOC action. I think you can do it even if you signed the agreement, but take a stand and don't... — read more 

Please follow all IBM BCGs (Business Conduct Guidelines) and all IBM SCGs (Social Computing Guidelines), even if you are not an employee of the company. The IBM PR team will be enforcing these guidelines to ensure the postings have appropriate and... — read more 

Watching IBM is reporting that managers took training today on next round of layoffs. It will happen in the next couple of weeks. Anyone have details? Sent to Watching IBM: Hearing that managers had to take a course today for the next RA. This was in... — read more 

Employees to move to North Castle by March 2017

I am not happy where I'm at, either personally or professionally... (I think that) If I could solve either of these issues, the other would become tolerable. Here's a bit of background: I moved to a new location in the US after college and have been... — read more 

It's all a bunch of fraudulent marketing and financial engineering (the only kind of engineering going no at IBM today, sadly) http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2016/05/11/ibm-will-never-catch-amazon-microsoft-in-cloud-says-deutsche/

This is nuts boys... IBM Sues Ex-Sales Head (Cloud), Seeks $500K Global sales head Louis Attanasio accused of taking secrets. IBM filed a lawsuit on Monday accusing a long-time senior executive of stealing corporate secrets related to its cloud... — read more 

I applied for a UK Up2Grad role after spending 2014/15 working for IBM (loved it), and got to the role matching within the business stage in ~October 2015. Not long after that, the whole hiring freeze business starts, and my application has been on... — read more 

It's not all that dismal as posters here want you to believe. There's lots of large projects going on at IBM at any time, and most are quickly announced. Watson, Blockchain, OpenWhisk, and Bluemix are all large publicly known initiatives going on... — read more 

Cuts will be hitting the seriously underperforming, bug laden, dissatisfied customer area of Software group very soon.

IBM had massive, world-wide outages in their cloud platform on April 28 and 29. Both were unrelated to each other. They were screwups of simple things like DNS and network config. The failover config that is supposed to provide high availability and... — read more 

I'm an RA'd employee (March 2) residing in California, from the Sandy Carter/Robert LaBlanc failed experiment known as "IBM Cloud Ecosystem Development". What a joke. My manager informed me by email on 5/2 that I MUST take my 8.5 accrued days of... — read more 

One chart tells you all...

I'm in middleware/software, but on the cloud side of that (getting the legacy products to SaaS). There has definitely been a change over the last year, and more so every month really. Everything just seems to be in decline. There used to be a lot of... — read more 

I'm in Cloud, so maybe it's specific to our org, but does anyone else think something very weird is going on? The clarity in strategy and direction this year has been especially confusing and incoherent, in my opinion. This is really bad, I know... — read more 

Been looking for some extra income - there are some opportunities on Upwork or externally (one of them would make me a contractor for Microsoft)... Anyhow, does that conflict with our IBM contract as a salaried employee? It's not coding or anything... — read more 

For reference, just register (it's free) & then stay tuned to this site -- http://seekingalpha.com/symbol/IBM/focus

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-05-03/are-tech-giants-really-making-money-on-the-cloud "IBM, by contrast, lumps so many different businesses into its "Technology Services & Cloud Platforms" segment -- it even includes some hardware sales... — read more 

I work for IBM in NY and have a brother who is attempting to stay local to a southern state for his spouse (not Texas or SC) and I'm trying desperately to help him get a job. I think of the people I talk to on support lines... He could easily do that... — read more 

http://www.abc17news.com/news/ibm-responds-to-letter-from-us-senator-questioning-use-of-h1b-visas/33021996

It's not all bad news guys... IBM’s Innovation Center taking shape in downtown Buffalo... Innovation Center takes shape in Key Center; 500 workers to be hired... You can see more details here:... — read more 

http://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/042916/ibm-faces-further-possible-sp-downgrade-ibm.asp

Worked on State of Georgia account for 9 years. I made it though Many rounds of cuts same story as about used abused and lied to. Saw many many coworkers go very talented seasoned people 40's and 50's so if your not 25 get out now - we were cored... — read more 

Bear with me please... From what I understand, IBM has a semi-regular promotion schedule. I was under the impression that notifications begin in Q2 and come into effect in Q3. Is this the case?

There are so many IT layoff this year, how are we all going to find another job especially with China now even producing fab chips/asics. I know everyone thinks India/Indian's are a big threat and taking over our jobs. Yes, I agree to some point but... — read more 

Organic cloud revenue is not growing anywhere close to as quickly as it needs to grow (in fact, it slowed) in order to catch up with Amazon on Microsoft. Update your resume and keep your ears to the ground. Chances are you won't be laid off, but... — read more 

When do you think they're will be more layoffs for Cloud folks?

I am relatively new to Systems performance marketing and want to know what salary band I am in. I hear a lot of band talk - I interviewed and negotiated directly with my manager and never spoke to a recruiter or HP personnel.

Would you please describe how PIP process is executed ??

IBM Korea.... There is a rumor that software group services unit will be eliminated soon. Anyone who heard about it in your country?

Here's a guy that really gets it. He actually looks at the numbers and analyzes, rather than just blindly regurgitating the BS and spin from Rometty and Schroeter, as CNBC, Motley Fool, and so many others do. "It's going to be a great cruise, once we... — read more