On one hand, the company lacks new talents who will bring fresh ideas, and on the other, the management does not try to keep anyone talented here. Months without new employees, while in the meantime capable people keep on leaving - where does it all lead?
If this trend continues, I fear that soon IBM will be a company where there will be more managers than actual employees who do the work.
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The Peter Principle is alive and well.
My project manager just learned how to login to GitHub. They ask for updates on the project constantly even though you can literally see progress in real time. This manager thinks repo is short for repossessed.
Always been like this…a bunch of overpaid managers that do nothing, except take credit for your hard work!
I was on account where it was just me wintel sys admin and a unix sys admin
There were 5 sdms , project exec, delivery project exec, architect (not the brightest)
More bosses then horses
Yes, recently promoted are getting promoted again without achieving anything. No strategy, no vision. Urgent requests which have nothing to do with committed goals. And no people left to deliver anything!
Been like this at ibm for the last 10 years. You just wake up from your nap?