http://www.fastcompany.com/3059849/the-future-of-work/these-millennials-have-become-the-top-decision-makers-at-ibm "A look at how IBM's 5,000-strong 'Millennial Corps' is helping the company stay relevant." HA! Right. . . What they're really doing is... — read more
IBM India Private Limited, an IBM subsidiary, has filed paperwork for numerous H-1B workers for a property in Oklahoma City
http://www.computerworld.com/article/3032350/it-careers/hertz-cutting-it-jobs-as-its-shifts-to-ibm.html
Somebody needs to explain if Louisiana's investment in IBM is in jeopardy
http://www.nola.com/opinions/baton-rouge/index.ssf/2016/05/ibm_baton_rouge_layoffs.html
Dear Friend
And for years you saw IBMer after IBMer let go. Did you join the union. No. Did you write your congressman. No. Did you think it would evenhappen to you. No. You worked for a greedy lying company that has betrayed the US citizens. Now you know it can... — read more
Inside IBM: 'No-one is safe' as fresh round of job cuts hits Big Blue
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/inside-ibm-no-one-safe-fresh-round-job-cuts-hits-big-blue-1561781
Major Troubles with Analytics
Cringely's at it again, this time he's after Analytics Source: http://www.cringely.com/2016/05/23/the-problem-with-analytics The Problem With Analytics There is a difference between knowledge and understanding. Knowledge typically comes down to... — read more
IBM - Incontinent Business Machines
Yes, I do believe "Incontinent Business Machines" is the proper name going forward as IBM loves to dump it's employees and to dump on the employees and it's customers. Fact: Layoffs have left IBM accounts with little and in some cases, no system... — read more
From The UK
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/05/23/ding_ding_ibm_rings_bell_for_round_two_of_job_cuts_at_gts/
Another smoke screen ?
http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/23/technology/ibm-jobs/index.html?iid=hp-toplead-dom
IBM Mention In Article
http://valleypatriot.com/h-1b-foreign-workers-are-destroying-merrimack-valley-economy/
Posted on Glassdoor
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
How this guy used Watson to tune out of conference calls
http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/19/technology/watson-conference-call/
Birth defects and pollution: Study on IBM out next week
http://www.pressconnects.com/story/news/2016/05/20/birth-defects-pollution-study-ibm-endicott-tce/84500904/
IBM Cautionary Tale: What Happens When You Reach Out To Executives
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
Heartless, disloyal, disgusting people at the top
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
My father's lay off.
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
RA'd today? DON'T sign the agreement, file an EEOC action! It's your right.
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
When Posting on This and Other Forums Please...
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
RA is coming
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
Somers Site to be Sold
Employees to move to North Castle by March 2017
Advice
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
Barron's calls BS on IBM's Cloud
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/
Careful Now - IBM Can Sue Even Employees
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
What's going on with the IBM hiring freeze?
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
Growth
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
Memorial Day will be memorable for many.
Cuts will be hitting the seriously underperforming, bug laden, dissatisfied customer area of Software group very soon.
Cloud #Fail @IBM
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
RA'd Employees in CA - you have rights protecting your accrued vacation
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
http://www.statista.com/statistics/269137/ibms-revenue-since-2009-by-quarter/
One chart tells you all...
IBM's Death Spiral Has Begun
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
Cloud Foes
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
Upwork
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
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Are Tech Giants Really Making Money on the Cloud?
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
Does IBM offer remote entry level work?
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
Senator Chuck Grassley wants some answers on #H1B abuse
http://www.abc17news.com/news/ibm-responds-to-letter-from-us-senator-questioning-use-of-h1b-visas/33021996
IBM Buffalo is Hiring 500 Resources
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
IBM Faces Further Possible S&P Downgrade (IBM)
http://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/042916/ibm-faces-further-possible-sp-downgrade-ibm.asp