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Pretty common practice at IBM to get an account, migrate all the people over and then transition them to india, brazil, and mexico at dirt cheap rates. Only 1/
by sumoboy 9y ago
Pretty common practice at IBM to get an account, migrate all the people over and then transition them to india, brazil, and mexico at dirt cheap rates. Only 1/10 of converted employees will be left after 2 years.
Watson is trying to force a solution to a typically unknown problem and not the reverse. Projects like this always fail. IBM has failed to make a cloud presence with there own products. Buffet's own investing rules is to understand the product, so maybe he's finally coming to his senses even IBM doesn't understand it's own products and the market demand.
- dudus 9y agoCan confirm. I'm Brazilian and my first job out of college was for IBM supporting a US company systems. I was not even an employee of IBM, I was officially a contractor serving IBM serving a US company. Engineering was all in India and support in Brazil because we had timezone overlap and better English accent. It's a solid business plan if you ask me. There's a lot of money to be made on outsourcing operations that don't need to be in the US.