IBM Design Department Employee Reviews
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I love the flexibility (work / life / volunteering) and the people I work with.
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What do you like best about the leadership team?
They allow you to foster and grow within the company
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They are fairly transparent, consistent and approachable. During in-person interactions or in forums like slack during an all-hands they answer questions personally and seem to want the best for all employees as well as the company.
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They are receptive to feedback and always find ways to improve
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Teir willingness tho listen and flexible
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I appreciate the clear and open communication.
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What does the leadership team need to get better at?
Recognition, hiring good talent, work life balance, clear vision and compensation
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modernizing team formation and product management, project management.
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Be more focused and transparent and care about employees, try to be more competitive with other companies in the market
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They need to retire and let go of the legacy that is crippling the company.
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Too many cooks in the kitchen. There are as many managers, leads, and VPs than individual contributors. Alignment is difficult–I'd rather have a direction that fails so we can pivot, than spend a year flip-flopping and shipping something lukewarm.
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What is the best part about your compensation package?
All combined the compensation is fair
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The salary and 401k matching are great for this area.
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The extra addons for people that might need it.
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Medical benefits are good, 401k match is good, pay increases usually via raises or promotions often, flexibility of working at home
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Large selection of 401K choices
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Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
O salario esta um pouco abaixo do mercado para a funcao exercida.
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Compared to other friends in the industry we are woefully underpaid. Try looking at roles at other big tech firms and comparing?
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I really didn't get much hike after switching. My previous pkg was 18.5 LPA and IBM provided 20.5 LPA
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Better remuneration and perks for all
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More benefits and perks, just look at your competition
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What are some of the best things about your team?
They are open to discussions and answering questions in order to help me grow and learn in my role
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Everyone is working as a team instead of individuals.
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The openness for feedback and quality of it. How well we all work together to solve problems and strategize approaches.
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THey listen and are very helpful
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My team is full of interesting and diverse people.
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What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
More technical skill. Compared to the industry (large companies, with comparable size) the technical level of our engineers is much lower.
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Everyone receive the same training/guidance outside of WHU or Your Learning.
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I work better with people that I know outside of our work. The coworkers I currently interact with the most don't seem to care about getting to know each other. I understand that work comes first but this affects my confidence and comfort level, and it makes my job extremely unsatisfying.
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I work mostly with contractors rather than IBM internal employees. Because they are contractors, they are not as invested in IBM as I am, and will only go as far as their contract goes (I have been told many times, "That's not covered in my contract so I won't do it")
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Way too many meetings. The company says it's agile–but it's not. Agile just means "leadership wants you to work fast and do what we say"
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What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
Really smart and kind people that you learn a lot from.
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ERG's that are available to me
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That inclusivity and kindness is baked into the culture and programs. There is a very visible effort to grow teams for diversity, have accessibility baked into programming and grow ERGs for various groups. There seems to be a welcoming and transparent approach to this that I haven't seen elsewhere.
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ERG's are fantastic for engaging with other folks from the company
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There are laughs as well as dedication in getting the work done. Teamwork!
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What needs to change to make the company culture better?
More accountability on the work people do.
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Less bullying from upper management.
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Recognition, hiring good talent, work life balance, clear vision and compensation
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implement true SCRUM practices. Scrum meetings build team collaboration/rapport and cadence in work instead of random crap popping up and putting out fires unexpectedly,
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Senior leadership needs to get out of the way.
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What did you like most about the interview process?
It was casual and very organized.
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It was a very energetic time of change for the company. Unfortunately, those days have ended and we're back to our bad habits.
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What would you improve about your company's interview process?
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What makes you most happy at work?
Everything that I do for the company
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The work I am able to do
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Getting recognized for my impact
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I love the office and my team.
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Knowing that i am bring supported to put my best work forward
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What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
More training and improved tools.
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Sometimes the projects or events I work on aren't of personal interest or fulfilling.
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Better management - making a clear distinction between 'leadership' and management, often we promote bad leaders into management positions who then cannot lead teams. Think about that.
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I know this is a work in progress but the quality and expectations could be better.
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Unclear expectations, last-minute leadership asks that become urgent, stressful fire drills. Lack of alignment between various squads in my department and too much emphasis on showing "quick wins" rather than making sustainable changes.
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What do you like best about your company?
it is a company of integrity
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Work life balance
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Security and innovation
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What would you most like to see improved at your company?
i would like to see all workers valued, both young and old.
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Salaries brought up to market value
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Upper management should retire so that we can move forward
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