IBM is destroying it
Sales (Current Employee) - San Francisco, CA - April 28, 2023
It was a fabulous company until IBM got its hands on it. The IBM team doesn't get along with the Red Hat team.
Multiple reorganizations, secret layoffs and lack of transparency or direction. Because of the constant change, it is super stressful.
Good PTO time and a quarterly recharge day.
Pros
HDQ office in Raleigh is super cool
Cons
Politics and backstabbing
Matt "IBM" Hicks Manager and CEO of the year.......love Arvind haha So long suckers.......youve been had!!!!
and if there were 2k PM's which I don;t believe (more Hicks Nash Doodeck Propaganda and Koolaid) guess who hired them ..This pi-s poor leadership team...CHECKMATE
I heard a stat today that something like 2k employees were project managers. That’s too many at a 20k company. Let’s use PM skills where it adds the most value but let’s also ack that we are also overweight on some of this stuff.
As one of the impacted project managers, Matt's comment was a slap in the face today. He told us all at that moment we were getting sacked despite being told to be patient by our managers to see how we would be reorganized into new roll-ups by the end of April. That was clearly a fantasy put forward by our managers to keep us working on their mess, including asking us to volunteer to take on temporary projects! Agree, management asked us to take lemons and make lemonade AND they demanded we take on work outside the scope of a project/program manager to be "good team players" in order to cover for insufficient staffing, e.g., sales training & enablement, salespeople technical support with sales tools, and UAT were the most egregious. Worried about paying the bills in the next several months, but long term know it's a new chapter to gain new opportunities and find something better where project managers are valued. Good luck to all impacted today and those to come in the remainder of Q2. Move on as best you can.
Also VPs,Directors and Sr Mgrs of this org are to blame for any lack of strategic direction lack of focus , lack of planning, lack of "outcomes" If anything the Project Managers in this company were turning LEMONS into LEMONADE!! So Long Matt Hicks and Nashs and IBMers there are much better companies to work for