IBM reviews

The smart people aren't always where you are, the challenging projects aren't, either. There's a lot of grunt labor that has nothing to do with the stuff that generates the name recognition. Pay isn't very good unless you're a star. The sense is that senior management is running scared, and their paternal style doesn't allow them to frankly ask for help. They do try, but only intermittantly.

Upper management has become extremely short sighted, focusing on the needs of tomorrow and not the long term future. Last year LEAN was implemented except that the only focus in LEAN was to remove staffing. If you read LEAN techniques it is about reducing staff but doing so in a way that removes excess work that doesn't add value. The staffing reduced is supposed to go into a short term position of handling documentation and process improvements, instead people were cut without all the detail work.