If anyone has had an interview with IBM HR regarding their vaccine exemption request, please post your experience here. Of special interest are the following: Were the questions related to accommodation? Were the questions probing your religious... — read more 

C&CS is pathetic. Most FLMs/SLMs are drifters from other divisions and were useless much earlier. With no ground knowledge they get to make all decisions in C&CS. No surprise products are subpar, hardly anyone good wants to join/stay there. Well... — read more 

Just watched this bloke do an "ama". First time seeing him, I see why everyone hates him. Such a wad with smart-a-s smug comments that enjoys listening to himself talk. He didn't answer question, he narrated some boring story and on each question... — read more 

https://www.thelayoff.com/kyndryl /kyndryl

I retired from IBM 3 years ago. I had many experiences and worked with great people. IBM tried to lay me off 3 times. I transferred to other clients and even traveled for two years. i retired on my terms. Learn new skills in high demand so you can... — read more 

Do you think there may be small/medium/large IBM layoffs? Any chatter, news or rumors?

RH is acquiring too, albeit at a slower rate, but already starting to favor the Big Bleu model for "growth". https://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2021/11/08/red-hat-acquires-toronto-based-phlyt.html A Toronto-based consulting company is... — read more 

Where are these mass 10s of thousands of cuts people and that de-------t clown have talked about? Those billions of restructuring that was going to be used for RAs? Nothing but blowing smoke and making everyone paranoid.

The layers of management are very necessary since they are the perfect mechanism to hide from the actual work, build a comfortable place for oneself while pushing the real work down. I notice that many, especially the less technical people and more... — read more 

Ummm ... what??? https://www.forbes.com/sites/jenamcgregor/2021/11/09/keeping-the-elephant-dancing-ibms-first-head-of-culture-explains-how-hes-working-to-keep-its-people-focused-like-its-strategy/?sh=36bab0c66922 Another shift, he says, is to push... — read more 

quitting is the only way to make ibm do anything : I used to think like this, that this company will realize that it's losing great people and do something to keep it from happening, but now I don't think so anymore. If IBM wanted to do... — read more 

I'm just wondering if people who were put on PIP at some point and managed to survive (yes, they exist) have a chance of ever advancing their careers or are they stuck? I'm curious since I know of a few people who passed and are staying at IBM... — read more 

Ouch! :-o https://seekingalpha.com/article/4466347-ibm-dead-dinosaurs-cant-dance "Revealing a Rotten Core In total, this paints a damning picture. IBM has been keeping the stock "alive" and somewhat propped up with buybacks, but even that hasn't... — read more 

I'm not interested in IBM until I see at least one full year of core business revenue growth. I'm saying I want to see at least four quarters of year over year growth and, ideally, without any kind of gymnastics around 2020, or pandemic... — read more 

You put in the wrong guy to run IBM!!!

Lower middle/middle class vs upper middle class. Enough said.

You can feel the hot air through your monitor. . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfy7yWJICXg

Anyone seeing this at IBM? The 37-Year-Olds Are Afraid of the 23-Year-Olds Who Work for Them https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/10/28/business/gen-z-workplace-culture.amp.html

IBM as myth and warning (Note charts mentioned cannot be reproduced here) IBM’s spin-off of its data centre services business became official yesterday, when Kyndryl began trading. The new company fell more than 7 per cent in its debut, a... — read more 

https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/04/kyndryl_ibm_spinoff/

Biden postponing vax mandate for companies to Jan 4… do you think IBM will follow suit so that IBMers that do not want to get vaccinated can at least cash their 401K match?

https://www.barrons.com/articles/kyndryl-stock-ticker-trading-ibm-spinoff-51635974660 Late Wednesday, IBM completed its long-planned spinoff of Kyndryl, the company’s sprawling managed IT services company. IBM investors largely view the deal as... — read more 

Kyndryl (symbol "KD") begins trading today on the NYSE. Who's next?

Today Kyndryl is on its own. There is good news and bad news with the spin-off. The good They took 88,449 employees with 10 year plus average of skills. (the more experienced and higher pay employees). They absorbed slightly over 1 billion of... — read more 

Judge Gilstrap hears among the highest number of patent-infringement cases in the U.S. His disqualification notices could throw the docket of the small Texas courthouse into disarray, according to legal-ethics and patent experts. . . ... — read more 

How does that even make any real sense in the actual real world?

A small digression, the topic is neither mandates nor cuts, but the rumor I heard that maybe we could get off Notes. I hope it comes true.

Is IBM currently mandating training be done before end of year? On Linkedind, I'm seeing several (not so humble) IBMers , bragging about getting certified in W. The next day, same person bragging about X, then Y the next day, etc. Some individuals... — read more 

https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/cloud/amazon-google-and-microsoft-pile-public-cloud-fortunes

Did you hear? All lettered Bands are getting a 10% bonus end of month for their "Leadership" during these trying times.

https://www.newsweek.com/americas-most-loved-workplaces-2021

I really hope someone here can dispel this rumor! I learned from LinkedIn in the last few days that people now speculate the IBM Redbooks are going the way of the dodo. Apparently some brilliant IBM exec figured out how to mitigate bad 3Q business... — read more 

What should one do when your direct manager obviously fancies a team member and can't even stop mentioning about this person's name in topics nothing to do with this person. Talk about uncomfortablness and the high likelihood of biased treatment and... — read more 

The dashboard is out.. IBMers, report if you show COMPLIANT if you have registered your vax card with TrustAssure/CLX. Thank you.

Word out of Armonk is that once the Digital Health Passports have been verified and validated, EVERYONE will be required to go into the office beginning in 2022. With the spinoff complete and all whom will be shown the door, they have plenty of space... — read more 

Nope! Leave me alone!!!

If you are still at ibm then just enjoy it because there are reasons keeping you there that have nothing to do with technical talent In Austin the best of the best of ibm are now at amd, aws, nvidia ,Apple ,…. The only ones left are the ones that... — read more