Just sharing what was shared to me law firm representing laid off workers for age discrimination from IBM https://sm.lawyernewstoday.com/ibm-workers-li/?li_fat_id=8f03b948-2ddf-472f-8dce-c507ae808792
Why do you say faang pays 2x more so we should all leave?
Why do you say faang pays 2x more so we should all leave? Most ibmers i know today don't stand a chance to be hired by faang, there are exceptions, but most are either too weak or too young, sometimes both. Very little top talent left really. Have... — read more
Not much career progression
I am quite dissatisfied. I expected much more. That is, I tried my best to move as far forward as possible. However, I haven’t made any significant career progression in the two and a half years I’ve been here. Maybe I should have been more... — read more
IBM Artificial Intelligence Supercomputer Watson Has 8 Stock Picks For 2022
HA! Watson doesn't list IBM on this list of 8 stocks. Maybe Watson will be successful. . . https://www.benzinga.com/trading-ideas/long-ideas/21/12/24814302/ibm-artificial-intelligence-supercomputer-watson-has-8-stock-picks-for-2022
Board of Directors
Can employees get the BoDs removed? Because something needs to be done here
Apple gives some engineers a rare $180,000 bonus to prevent them from defecting to Meta and the tech giant's other rivals
Still wondering if you're getting screwed-over by IBM on salary? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10350935/Apple-gives-engineers-rare-180-000-bonus-prevent-defecting-Meta.html So ... we get paid way less than market, horrible/toxic... — read more
We're being replaced
U.S. locations keep losing people while overseas locations keep adding people. We're being replaced with a cheaper and usually not as skilled workforce and nobody seems to care. I wouldn't be surprised if at some point in the future 95 percent of IBM... — read more
Best Company Culture 2021
IBM is in the top ten. So I guess that blatant ageism, nepotism, and management-through-fear now qualify as good company culture. I don't dare think what other companies are like if that's considered one of the... — read more
Life at IBM
Methinks Shakespeare may have captured the essence of life at IBM and the ignoble end of a once great company: "There would have been a time for such a word. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last... — read more
Db2, where are you? Big Blue is oddly reticent to discuss recent enhancements to its flagship database
Speaking of the past... Interesting article. https://www.theregister.com/2021/12/23/db2_where_are_you/
Trap of living on past glories
IBM is living on past glories and borrowed time. Unless someone starts cleaning house from the top-down and gets rid of all the completely useless "charts not parts" managers, develops a lucid strategy to provide products that customers really need... — read more
Watch your back
I think you're now more likely to get bitten by a shark than to retire from IBM. They're out for blood (sadly I'm talking about IBM, not sharks) and anybody over a certain age is fair game. People are not only getting laid off but fired as well... — read more
How to Measure How Well a Company Does on Innovation
In 2021, for example, International Business Machines Corp.’s innovation score of 115.6 trails only Amazon (155.0) and Microsoft Corp. (136.2). IBM’s best score on an innovation indicator is a stratospheric 141.5 for its number of patent... — read more
Sometimes I wonder how this company is not already bankrupt
Considering all the bad moves, very bad management, terrible treatment of employees who then go to competing companies where they are much happier, isn't it strange that IBM is not bankrupt already?
I'm feeling very lonely
I often join calls and most who talk do not understand the problems neither can contribute to the solutions, just talk and talk without clarity or direction, always back to square one. When a good idea is presented they fail to recognize it and often... — read more
IBM Fired Linux Open Source Developer
Still remember the guy in this news? https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=IBM-Employee-100p-Time. He was fired by IBM early December. Here's what I know: Shortly after IBM clarified the stance publicly... — read more
Alpha Bonus
What is an alpha bonus? When do employees usually receive that?
5th January 2022
So its has been mentioned that on the 5th Jan the new IBM will be announced. get rid of old think about the new. The new strategy will be pushed to one and all.. Last Jan they did the same and pretty much bu-----d it up segment 1 -2ABC C got... — read more
Any positive signs? Is ibm improving?
What is your perspective? Im paid well, work hard, really want things to get better and stay. But im worried it is hopeless, talent is gone, most who stay are either too weak or too young. Does ibm really have a chance to stop the bleeding and show... — read more
Cuts at F&O
There are many who mention possible layoffs at F&O in the near future, but no one has more detailed information about who could be the target, how many people could be affected, etc.? Does anyone have more info?
Did IBM datacenters move to Kyndryl?
Hi All - Did IBM datacenters move to Kyndryl? Full disclosure: I am not an employee.
This is no longer a forward thinking company
Not that I think too highly of myself, but unlike just a few years back, IBM has gone terribly backwards. The colleagues I started working with were people with knowledge and spirit. Now I work with a bunch of ambitious mediocrities. How it happened... — read more
IBM Employees Release Open Letter Questioning Company's Vaccine Mandate
Fighting AK's imposition of medical apartheid! https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2021/12/08/2348616/0/en/IBM-Employees-Release-Open-Letter-Questioning-Company-s-Vaccine-Mandate.html https://againstfederalmandates.com/openletter/
2021 Drucker Institute Company Ranking
How is Big Bleu still in the Top 5? https://www.drucker.institute/2021-drucker-institute-company-ranking/
Kyndryl already kicking IBM to the curb
This is a big FU to IBM and the demise of IBM Cloud (the shoddy smoke screen that it is) "Kyndryl and Google Cloud are proud to announce our global strategic partnership to help customers accelerate their digital transformations and become more... — read more
Dec 10 - anyone suspended
Dec 8 date has passed, has anyone been suspended at IBM?
The admins here have an agenda
I noticed that the entire thread regarding the federal contractor mandate being enjoined was removed - even though it directly correlates to happenings within IBM including possible job loss, yet threads discussing salaries and bonuses - which has... — read more
Can We Move On From How Much Richer You Are Than I Am And Which Of Us Is Or Is Not Vaxxed?
Puh-Leaz people... can we get back to rubbishing the IBM corporation? I don't care how much more than me you make. And I don't care if you and I are oppositely vaccinated. Hmm. I don't care if one of us is and the other isn't. This whole board... — read more
At Least IBM doesn't do Mass Zoom layoffs yet like this Tech Company in San Francisco
‘F—k you, dude’: Startup valued at $7B gets flack as CEO lays off 900 employees over Zoom - Tech Mortgage Company https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/Better-mortgage-firm-has-mass-layoff-Zoom-16673576.php Just days after receiving a $750 million... — read more
Alpha Bonus Queston
I do not see any discussions on Alpha Bouns - any info to be shared on this
AWS wants to get your mainframe apps into the cloud – fast
https://www.networkworld.com/article/3642373/aws-wants-to-get-your-mainframe-apps-into-the-cloud-fast.html
IBM Acquires Digital Transformation Services Firm SXiQ
Any thoughts on what will be consolidated with this new merger buyout. https://www.tipranks.com/news/ibm-acquires-digital-transformation-services-firm-sxiq?mod=mw_quote_news This acquisition will allow IBM to strengthen its capabilities in Australia... — read more
Austin's Power Group About to Abandon POWER Core Switch to ARM Licensing
With revenue down quarter after quarter, year over year, Power group running out of cash flow, has to eliminate the POWER core design team to survive. Chief Architects were let go during Thanksgiving holiday. Expect 60% - 80% cut in Core design team... — read more
HRH The Prince of Wales's Terra Carta Seal - Good Tech IBM
#GetWokeGoBroke https://www.ibm.com/blogs/corporate-social-responsibility/2021/11/terra-carta-seal/
what software is next for IBM to get rid of
Since IBM strategy is now Data and AI, what products do you see being sold off??? Spectrum? WatsonAIOps the rest of Rational Websphere? (as they are promotong Jboss. Thoughts
Pretty cool IBM Systems Integration Division (1989 Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjpXJ6ObnvY