Why do we have so many non-technical stsms and DEs? Who lets these guys go up the technical ladder with so little knowledge and so disconnected from the reality of today's technology? Is it mostly a political game? Don't get me wrong, there are... — read more 

Your old pal Deep Throat here again. I’d like to explain the title to this short memo, and a hot topic for me personally. Recently IBM posted this: "In 2020, the company achieved its goal of hiring 2,000 veterans, 11 months in advance of... — read more 

https://www.wraltechwire.com/2021/10/14/ibm-is-expanding-upskilling-programs-commits-to-training-30-million-people-by-2030/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter&utm_source=wral

So when it comes to pay, no problem violating the contractual terms. But when it comes to vaccine mandates. . . https://www.mbtmag.com/home/news/21759440/ibm-to-pay-350000-over-pay-discrimination

https://www.forbes.com/lists/worlds-best-employers Number 2! Wow!!!

Is it unreasonable to ask someone from PT timezone to follow ET hours for 1 month during critical phase of the project? To be specific... starting 9AM ET. Work day typically gets over at 6p ET or sooner sometimes, and this person makes it such a... — read more 

Several times it's been mentioned $3.5 billion or whatever set aside for restructure and layoffs, yet, it's Mid-Oct and we haven't heard of any 30K people cut or whatever the # was predicted. Starting to think it's all fake news. I still see fluffy... — read more 

More layoffs in the short to medium terms for IBMers... https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/arvind-krishna-ibm-dead-serious-about-partner-push-upcoming-growth-has-got-to-be-through-channel

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ibm-board-directors-approves-separation-123600295.html

Now we know where Picciano wound-up. https://www.accesswire.com/666898/CognitiveScale-Names-AI-Industry-Veteran-Robert-J-Picciano-New-Chief-Executive-Officer

Appears Big Bleu will get a wedge of this cheese wheel -- https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-return-of-jedi-sequel-to-military-cloud-contract-will-be-much-more-complex-11633640142

Does anyone else hear the absolute desperation? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWegrh66zp4

The amount of threads where people virtue rage and tell posters to report their bosses to HR, with only the most minimal context, truly continues to baffle me. You all know nothing except 1 side of the story, and that briefly told. How many times... — read more 

Email from the CEO: S. IBMers, It has now been more than 18 months since the onset of COVID-19. While the pandemic continues to evolve around the world, the health and safety of our employees, clients and partners remains our top priority. — read more 

US employees are now required to be vaccinated to work at IBM. Thoughts…

Anyone knows if anything will happen to Tivoli and Tivoli products? With the many recent acquisitions (Instana, Turbonomics and the likes) and looks like Tivoli is slowly becoming obsolete. Is that another part that will be sold off which means that... — read more 

Talent Acquisition Partner (Poland) - https://ibm.co/3ixe0Ap Talent Acquisition Partner (Romania) -https://ibm.co/2ZJq4b9 Talent Acquisition Partner (Hungary) - https://ibm.co/3D6fKbN Hmmmm. . . Big Bleu looking to ramp-up headcount in low... — read more 

https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/10/05/things-investors-must-know-ibm-kyndryl-spin-off/ "Key Points + IBM will spin off its managed infrastructure services unit as Kyndryl by the end of the year. + Kyndryl’s standalone financials look... — read more 

https://www.ibm.com/investor/articles/ibm-to-update-management-system-and-reporting-segments

IBM Spills Details on Kyndryl Spinoff. What You Need to Know Source / paywalled: Barron's https://www.barrons.com/articles/ibm-spills-details-on-kyndryl-spinoff-what-you-need-to-know-51632922986 Paywall removed: https://archive.is/9wFVb — read more 

What are you thinking? All those mainframe refreshes are coming to a slowdown this quarter and we’ll feel it.

They lost their employees.

As stated in the filing, the company had losses on a GAAP basis in both 2020 and the first half of 2021, but that includes one-time charges related to both workforce reduction and the... — read more 

Very well-written article, outlining the agonizing history that landed IBM at the bottom of the cloud market https://www.protocol.com/enterprise/ibm-lost-public-cloud

Bolstering the corporatocracy. . . https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/27/ibm_exec_moves_central_government/

At International Business Machines Corp. , employees who aren’t fully remote will have dedicated working hours when they know they need to be on site: One team might decide it is Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., for instance. How people ... — read more 

Joining Red Hat seems like a dream come true. I knew I could come here to hear all the bad. Give it to me. How has Red Hat changed since the purchase by IBM and the exit of Jim Whitehurst.?

Anyone else concerned about this? I see some SSR and Remote Support names in blue pages now showing a second entry as a Kyndryl contractor. I thought TSS was supposed to go to Systems group. I guess not. We are too expensive and do not fit in India... — read more 

IBMer told to pay back IBM for previous payments after being laid off. https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/23/ibm_shamayun_miah_court_cases/

https://realmoney.thestreet.com/investing/ibm-gets-a-nod-from-larry-williams-15777184

In case anyone is interested. . . https://careerkarma.com/blog/how-to-get-a-job-at-ibm/

Here is one take. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/05/how-amazon-web-services-makes-money-estimated-margins-by-service.html

Maybe new-fangled meat slicers should've been Ginni's moonshot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5lEkz3Bomc

After offering a voluntary departure program targeting grey hair fellows and according to the Union with a reduction of aprox. 15% on the headcount AlwaysCo today started the RA raid on the remaining folks that don't went on "voluntary" . Looks like... — read more 

It is harder to run an idea meritocracy in which disagreements are encouraged than a top-down autocracy in which they are suppressed. But when believable parties to disagreements are willing to learn from each other, their evolution is faster and... — read more 

Total WW external OEM storage systems shipped was up 27.9% YoY for 2Q21. Revenue grew 9.7% YoY for 2Q21. Somehow IBM's revenue (current market share 4.7%, down from 8% last year) managed to grow -36% YoY. That's negative 36%!! Hitachi also declined... — read more 

According to the settlement agreement obtained through a Right to Know Law request filed by PennLive, IBM agreed to pay $33 million to the state Department of Labor & Industry to end the litigation filed in 2017. $33M equates to roughly how... — read more 

What is going on with Watson Health? Thought it was being sold? Any updates? Haven't seen or heard of any layoffs there in awhile.

BE/ MTech/ MSc/ MCA in CS/ IT/ Mathematics OR other Semi IT/ circuit branches with 6 CGPA. Hmmmmm. . .degrees required, eh? Not "New Collar" hires? Interesting. . . Work Location: Mumbai, Pune, Delhi/ NCR, Gurgaon, Noida, Hyderabad... — read more