IBM Senior Marketing Manager Employee Reviews
Briefly describe your overall experience at your company
Slow, stressful, and I sometimes cannot stand some of my coworkers. I cannot wait to retire.
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My overall experience is fine, constructive and growth oriented.
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What do you like best about the leadership team?
They are smart and open to listening to anyone. Their focus is on the 5-10 year plan, not the 90 day plan.
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They are very creative thinkers and are always coming up with new plans and strategies to keep the company moving forward.
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Innovative, creative, flexible and active
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They have experience and are fair.
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Willingness to discuss strategy with the entire company
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What does the leadership team need to get better at?
IBM's performance has been poor for the last 3 years. This has been a very disappointing executive team.
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Leading and getting things efficiently. Most importantly listening to others.
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The mid level managers are really out for themselves, they care very little about the growth of their direct reports. There is a culture of fear and a culture of espionage.
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The leadership is old, stale and out of touch. They all need to go
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Leadership
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What is the best part about your compensation package?
The extras like education benefits, legal consults, adoption fees, etc - all free.
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Comprehensive health care and benefits
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It is 100% salary and bonus would be extra.
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The compensation package is timely and reasonable.
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The pay is very competitive
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Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
We need new leadership with IBM to jumpstart the company with valuing our current employees and also those who have left by Rometty's forced non-existent packages.
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Lots of unrecognized work. Equal pay for equal work.
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The company treats employees as pawns. They also manage through fear and intimidation where you are supposed to feel "lucky to have a job"
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Raises are slim and have not had a promotion in 15 years yet get top rating 1or 2+ while working 10+ hour days.
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Benefits are slowly shrinking over the last five years
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What are some of the best things about your team?
the diversity of perspectives and backgrounds
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competitive yet very like a family
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My team is professional and knowledgeable.
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Team members are highly skilled, cooperative and efficient.
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Smart, creative, fun, compassionate and dedicated
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What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
There is a mix of everyone from forward thinkers to people stuck thirty years in the past. It’s hard to bring everyone with such a range of ideas toge
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Listen to each other better.
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Morale. It's on leadership
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Less isolation with job responsibilities. More collaboration and less process restraints.
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What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
team support - we are here to help each other
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world wide diversity and culture
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We set our own schedule and there is a lot of freedom.
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The environment is comparatively competitive yet reasonably calm and peaceful.
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The energy, rate of corporate culture change and inclusiveness
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What needs to change to make the company culture better?
Middle management slows the pace of innovation making it incredibly hard to execute our senior leaderships vision.
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It's very stressful and the way the offices are set up does not help.
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The company's environment is horrible, people feel threatened and always at risk of being laid off
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Fix bureaucratic processes. Give everyone the authority required to do their job.
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Open communication, investment in staff skills. Retrain vs replace
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What did you like most about the interview process?
I enjoyed the variety of people I spoke with at all different levels
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Very quick to hiring decision
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they were looking for an asset
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The interviewers are generally courteous.
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The grilling was difficult yet makes it the most enlightening experience.
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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?
my ability to make change and create success
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Going home when it's done.
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be able to have a fun!
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I have the freedom to get my work done the way I see fit.
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My colleagues and the ability to be creative in technology
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What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
Better more effective managers - who care about their teams
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Annual staff cuts overload those who remain, as the workload only increases. Mgt chain need to assess impact of cuts on productivity vs $$
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stop co-location
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No trust of mgmt when layoffs happen every quarter.
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Disruption of the system can only work for so long. Executives need to focus less on stock price and more on employees that keep sales stro
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What do you like best about your company?
The tech based component of it
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Great co-workers, trending right direction on business
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What would you most like to see improved at your company?
The work culture and the way networking is set up
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Focus on clients not products
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