Me: 'Am I going to be RAed?' Bot: 'On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.'

Our sales are where they were 6 years ago. The economy grew about 15% over 6 years. No increase in Cap spending – we are a tech company, why spend capital to invent things, right??? IBM’s debt tripled to increase the share buy backs, awesome if you... — read more 

Global Technology Services (technical outsourcing) SoftWare Group Systems & Technology Group (hardware plus specialist software) Global Business Services (consulting)

I didn't get cut in this RA, but the stress of worrying about the next one has already started. Or if this one is over. The stress is on my whole family and we can't make important life decisions because of the ever-present reaper in the form of... — read more 

Any advice or insights into the program, positive or negative? Many people seem to be fairly disappointed in the reality of the position based on their expectations from the recruitment/interview process. I am not trolling and I would appreciate any... — read more 

If so my advice, as someone who was "assimilated" too long ago, as soon as you can cash out of any options and/or profitable stock/bonus plans, exit city as fast as possible. If you delay, the lack of direction and sell out of existing "loyal"... — read more 

What if u leave IBM by returning laptop and not signing their package it's not worthy anyway ..will it still be considered RA

This is probably the most accurate analysis so far, with $70K/head-cut being a realistic estimate. “We have estimated that it has historically cost IBM about $70,000 to eliminate an employee, which would imply a workforce reduction of about 14,000... — read more 

Others suffer to pay Ginny's $7800 per hour rate ($19+ million/year). She must have got a 1 on last years PBC rating for such a great job she's doing.

The vast majority of the IBM workforce is now demoralized. Many hate the company. A lot. The company has irreparably damaged its reputation with its customers, the industry analysts and pundits out there. The executive team is looting the ship on the... — read more 

Feels like a waste of time. Thoughts and advice please!

Partners and AP's try to sell work which is overpriced and clients are smart to obtain same services from other firms at 30% less, likely with better deliverables. When they do win an engagement, they look to staff it with CBD'rs (band-6 out of... — read more 

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"To arrive at the headcount job cut estimate, Bernstein took IBM's historical cost to cut one employee -- $70,000. . ." At least we know what we're worth from a corporate perspective, , ... — read more 

Stephen Pratt, the former InfoSys executive who joined IBM nine months ago to boost its cognitive computing efforts, has left the company, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. IBM IBM 0.89% had no comment, but Pratt confirmed the news to the... — read more 

NEW YORK (AP) (Feb. 9, 2016 3:04 PM EST) — If you think your stocks are doing poorly, check out the performance of some of the most sophisticated investors, the ones with more knowledge about what's going on inside businesses than anyone else:... — read more 

Excellent discussion and on point. http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000497513

A new Cringely rant: IBM's Dying This is a column I didn’t want to write. Like many of you I am tired of IBM stories and the company that was once an industry leader has become, at best, a poster child for how not to manage the later stages of a... — read more 

Listen to the video all the way through: commenter is suggesting that the BoD is too afraid to ding her on compensation because she's a woman and they'd be exposed to blowback for perceived sexist behavior!? So ridiculous: so shes gets a pass to be... — read more 

What are your thoughts? Benioff extended an invite (to all laid off IBMers) to apply for a position at Salesforce.com

Per IW, IBM has taken $7 billion in workforce reduction charges since 2006 - do the math, it boils down to about 100,000 resources. Way to go!

I am entering my 6th month here. When I joined I thought that IBM need to fix a few things, to re-align, and to catch up with the rest of the technology giants (Apple, Google, etc.) But after a few months here it's clear that no such attempt is being... — read more 

Have you guys received your GDP results yet?

Before I retired, employees with 10-15 years with IBM used to tell me that they couldn't understand the, "Walk on broken glass" dedication of us old-timers. I would always tell them that was because all of the reasons for that dedication were long... — read more 

I've seen this now.. way too many times. All jobs on GOM are frozen if you are on the "RA list", you wont get replies, or you will not be selected, etc.. Total waste of time. Its all smoke and mirrors.. back in 2015.. my manager was in process to... — read more 

Here is my rant, I can go much longer but this is kind of a summary: #1 Layoffs, #2 Cheapos, #3 Deteroritating Resource Quality, #4 Process Heavy, #5 Quality Dropping, #6 People are Numbers, #7 Attrition is Through The Roof, #8 Training Sucks, #9... — read more 

How many H1Bs does IBM have in their US team? No one has talked about it.

Simple question. Has anyone that was part of the RA found a job on the internal GOM site? Has anyone even been granted an interview?

I've been out of IBM for 3/4 of a year and I am constantly getting requests to go contract with them paying 2x what I made when I was an employee, the problem is that my 4 1/2 years at IBM convinced me to never work for them or with them again if I... — read more 

Even if you were not part of the recent layoff at IBM, you should still look at the Hortonworks career site. Why wait? http://hortonworks.com/careers/

IBM executives are the scum of the earth. What they've done to this once noble company is despicable, and they deserve to be tossed out on their ear -- the whole lot of them. Ginni and her cast of clowns, just like the same posers before her, have... — read more 

On the bright side IBM shares have gone from 117 to 140 in a month. May as well take all your TDSP and put it on IBM shares and make a bundle that way. Warren Buffett has over 10 percent of IBM stock and is holding on. Ginny will reward Warren. Hold... — read more 

Internal Memo leak - Per Sillicon Alley: Exclusive Just 20 per cent of IBM’s Global Technology Services workforce in mature economies could remain under offshoring and near-shoring plans set out by the company’s top brass, The Register can... — read more 

Large layoffs, year after year, colleagues laid off, lots of HR tricks to get employees to resign in the interim to avoid severance packages, constantly wondering when the next layoff is and whether you'll be next, executives caring about nothing but... — read more