IBM has been mismanaged for the past 20 years yet live off legacy products and licensing to keep $$ rolling in. I spent 6 years working for them on the consulti

IBM has been mismanaged for the past 20 years yet live off legacy products and licensing to keep $$ rolling in. I spent 6 years working for them on the consulting side and it was by far the worst job I'd ever had because management is just terrible. Crippled at every level from incompetence to poor deals being accepted, it's a losing battle career wise. They will target everybody with high pay and any performance issue ever in their past to get rid of people when it's that time. I'd have all kind of conversations with distinguished engineers who gave you some hope that some smart people existed in the company, but it's nothing more than survivor island. They love to buy companies or take over a large companies organization, document it all and outsource all of it. The sales people are really good at finding ways to get new business by overpromising the world to keep them relevant while in the end losing $$.