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Mmmm.... no. IBM has built an organization that protects the bad employees. Business Analysts that cannot analyse anything to save themselves for instance. C

Mmmm.... no. IBM has built an organization that protects the bad employees. Business Analysts that cannot analyse anything to save themselves for instance. Coders in Bangalore that cannot code and have shitty communication skills (but marvellously developed excuse making skills). Server admins that don't know how to install and set up servers. I agree with the not letting smart people be smart... but it's not even that. If a project has caught fire and is burning down, they don't let the people with the firefighting skills come in and save it. Partly it is an incentivization problem. That is, there isn't any incentive to be efficient and good at what you do. Especially if you're billing your people out as consultants by the hour and somebody else is paying for it. This is a two level problem. The individuals have no incentive to make themselves genuinely better at what they do (there are personal development programs in IBM which people are encouraged to take, but that just pushes them even faster towards positions where they don't actually do anything useful - e.g. management), and the organization as a whole actually loses money if it becomes more efficient.

kamaal 15y ago
India/Bangalore/Rest of India situation has become a joke to say at the least. Words like 'Architect', 'Consultant' , 'Tech lead' are all dangerous words here, generally a person who has that designation is useless, hasn't done any work at all. During 90's and early 2000's most people got rapidly promoted regardless of whether they deserve it or not. They have hardly coded, spent most of the times at on site locations made good money and are now just relaxing and pushing time. Managers have no frigging clue how projects need to run, architects don't even have basic technical skills. The assumption is that you can just give orders to juniors and get the job done. That is how most of the so called seniors work here. Good hackers/programmers are never rewarded due to many reasons. The horrible ones hop jobs to get good hikes and ultimately end up earning more than the good guys. The general attitude of the guys joining the industry is not be technically good, never code, just get promoted quickly, go to onsite, earn money in USD, purchanse a flat, car, marry and settle down. And these sort of guys were actually rewarded during 90's and 2000's. So now everybody wants to be like that. The actual good guys are there, but are lost in the crowd.

kamaal 15y ago

India/Bangalore/Rest of India situation has become a joke to say at the least. Words like 'Architect', 'Consultant' , 'Tech lead' are all dangerous words here, generally a person who has that designation is useless, hasn't done any work at all. During 90's and early 2000's most people got rapidly promoted regardless of whether they deserve it or not. They have hardly coded, spent most of the times at on site locations made good money and are now just relaxing and pushing time. Managers have no frigging clue how projects need to run, architects don't even have basic technical skills. The assumption is that you can just give orders to juniors and get the job done. That is how most of the so called seniors work here. Good hackers/programmers are never rewarded due to many reasons. The horrible ones hop jobs to get good hikes and ultimately end up earning more than the good guys. The general attitude of the guys joining the industry is not be technically good, never code, just get promoted quickly, go to onsite, earn money in USD, purchanse a flat, car, marry and settle down. And these sort of guys were actually rewarded during 90's and 2000's. So now everybody wants to be like that. The actual good guys are there, but are lost in the crowd.