IBM Product Department Employee Reviews
Briefly describe your overall experience at your company
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What do you like best about the leadership team?
Focused on delivering value for our customers and caring for people at the company
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The teams is aligned and passionate about our plans
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The leadership team is approachable, knowledgeable about the market, is interested in my success, ands a great vision for our company and team
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They are mission oriented, humble, and well spoken
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Their vision, communication, honesty and integrity.
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What does the leadership team need to get better at?
Genuinely caring about their employees. When Covid hit, Salesforce gave its employees mental health days every other Friday. They have no meeting Thursdays (protected at the highest level). They stood against Roe v. Wade, so employees knew they were protected rather than further traumatized.
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Should care about not just the project success, but the team wellness itself. And should be paying attention on what people they are giving extra responsibilities.
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Understand the market, create an environment and organization that fosters teaming and collaboration.
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Set the mission clearly & publicly, take care of the team, deliver victory or share in suffering, be transparent. https://richardiporter.com/to-be-a-leader-deliver-victory-share-in-the-suffering/
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Leadership is simple but hard. Set a mission, take care of your people, do it while setting the example. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/leader-deliver-victory-share-suffering-richard-i-porter/
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What is the best part about your compensation package?
Balance of pay and benefits
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opportunity to earn with the company's performance
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Competitive base salary and ESPP
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Just that all are about right
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Stock options (RSU and discount stock)
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Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
My stock compensation is lower than industry standard for the region I'm in
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Bonus, stock options and variable bonus
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Better healthcare provision for neurodiversity and disability
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I haven't had a band promotion in 6 years despite actively advocating for one and consistently having my managers' and their superiors' support. I'm doing the work of a higher band (and covering the work left open when coworker left and wasn't backfilled), but being label and paid at a lower band
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A 401K match and transparency on salary will be helpful.
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What are some of the best things about your team?
Committed, Smart and honor HashiCorp values
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the manager has cultivated a team bonding culture which really helps build trust and alignment
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Everyone is extremely friendly and easy to talk to
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No drama, respectful of timezones, great camaraderie and collaboration. Solid perspective and grit.
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True to the culture promoted by the company.
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What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
Better trainings and better trainers
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Working together (teaming), meeting requested timelines...
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We have to many weak links who don't seem motivated or encourage to improve. Let alone put in the effort. Hard to get paid the same as them when doing twice the work. Known by managers but they're fearful they can't replace the staff if they let one go.
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high variance here between those that add value and those that subtract it, significant need for both good smart hiring and some good smart firing, but especially for exit interviewing those who have left despite being offered retention bonuses
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My local team is great, but our remote project leader is terrible at his job and it really hurts team morale.
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What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
HashiCorp's principles and values lived out
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remote-first done right as well as the feeling that I am working on a generational company.
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Remote first, kind, collaborative, willingness to share.
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Inclusive across geography and flexible to suit our constraints if any
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Positivity, helpfulness, passion and integrity.
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What needs to change to make the company culture better?
Rather pursuing interesting projects with real benefit, I'm untangling the same convoluted processes because my suggested fixes are ignored, or I'm on a Sisyphusian loop redoing the same projects because something changes (a team is laid off, a system is replaced, etc.) every time it's completed.
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work life balance and give importance to employee time, allocating time to innovation rather than using employee personal time. work time should be fixed not extending till night
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More and better VP guidelines, too much AGILE = FRAGILE
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focus. we are so constantly busy and racing around from meeting to meeting getting so little done. we desperately need to prioritize to get useful things done. we need a defined mission.
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Stop forcing people into open work space environments when they want to concentrate.
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What did you like most about the interview process?
I liked talking about ideas
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The quick continuous flow throughout the process.
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What would you improve about your company's interview process?
Cut to the chase... no brain teasing questions
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What makes you most happy at work?
Being able to create great products for our customers and having a positive impact
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being able to contribute at a high level and be recognized for my efforts
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I feel the work I do is important to the growth of our company and R&D team
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I have a job where I get to do what I want to do career-wise, growing within that field, learning a lot, and having really awesome peers.
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The people I get to work with are top notch.
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What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
Care about the people. Really care - consider the impact of your decisions (e.g. in your relocation requirements, your "redeployment" initiatives, your public stances) on the people. Think about the people they care for, the responsibilities and stresses weighing them down, the careers they want...
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I would appreciate more support from the project managers and when they say that something will change, i would expect them to follow through.
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everyone is involved in everything (this is a generalization), but it makes it difficult to be nimble and feel empowered to make decisions and move fast. culture is such that meetings become huge and everyone wants to listen, but there's a lack of accountability and willingness to ACT.
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Executive management and lack of strategy for division
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lack of meaningful engagement to my work, lack of social bonding
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What do you like best about your company?
The people and scale worldwide.
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Great teamwork
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Availability of different career options.
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What would you most like to see improved at your company?
Investment in people, culture, and engagement.
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More training
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Reduced bureaucracy.
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