IBM Employee Reviews for Senior Project Manager

"My expectations before joining IBM were much higher than my actual experience."

What don't you like about working at IBM?

"IBM GBS resources are only utilization statistics, not people-you bill, you hit your utilization numbers, you will stay employed... if you do not, you will not. Non-customer facing positions are being off-shored."

"Got a lot of good experience and training, but I am definitely ready to move on."

What do you like about working at IBM?

"There are still some truly exceptional individuals in the US divisions, based on acute competition and repeated layoffs of the lower performers. This will change, though, as the US IT market loosens up, assuming it ever does."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Get training, save, be ready to get cut at any time. Do not expect a career."

What don't you like about working at IBM?

"Working forty plus hours straight with catnaps only on deployments, being held accountable for performance of new hire offshore technical and PM Staff who are put on projects immediately without a clue, waiting to hear from my manager once or twice a year if I still have a job..."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Take a longer perspective, understand that IT skills are not directly and immediately portable: knowledge and experience matter, fund travel so that I can at least meet my manager ONCE. I have had four managers in the last five years and not met ONE of them in person."

"I enjoyed my career with IBM. Their current global resource strategy has affected several positions within the company."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Ensure proper risk assessment is in place in order to maintain appropriate level of required staff."

What do you like about working at IBM?

"Great."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Do your best."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Great benefits."

"A wonderful group of talented professionals."

What do you like about working at IBM?

"IBM population is the most professional and challenging, hands down."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Don't dress casual."

What don't you like about working at IBM?

"Nothing."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Keep up the good work and don't lose sight of the business goals."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Stress experience and leadership skills - IBM values leadership skills over everything else."

What don't you like about working at IBM?

"Work/life balance is no longer a priority. The size of the company also leads to strict regimentation by necessity - I prefer a smaller organization."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"None - as I mentioned before, the quality of management at IBM is top notch."

"Not a fan of outsourcing!"

What do you like about working at IBM?

"I enjoyed working with my employees and peer managers, they were a very talented group of individuals. Departments exhibited a lot of teamwork and helped the department reach all of its goals."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Still a lot of innovative work but work environment has cheapened the respect for the individual."

What don't you like about working at IBM?

"The first 25 years were the best; the last 9 were less than great! The employee to mgr. ratios became too large, made it difficult to spend enough time with each employee. Started out at around 10 to 1, then evolved into a 50 to 1 ratio. Outsourcing became too important to the bottom line."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Need a better system to allow time to work with employees and regain their confidence that managers know what they need to develop and grow."