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What made IBM worse to me than the rest of the industry was the crazy crunch/burnout culture both in my project and utilization-wise. Also the absolute insanity
by rcbdev 3y ago
What made IBM worse to me than the rest of the industry was the crazy crunch/burnout culture both in my project and utilization-wise. Also the absolute insanity of putting fresh out of college juniors on major aspects of multi-million euro projects.
They also seem to have zero organizational understanding of modern requirements engineering even though they talk a big buzzword game with "Design Thinking".
Suffice it to say, I didn't stay long.
- Nursie 3y ago> crazy crunch/burnout culture both in my project and utilization-wise Kinda the opposite of some of my experiences in big blue - in some of the software sides of things, productivity expectations were so low as to be really kinda funny. You could (and people did) coast along producing not very much for years at a time. Which is probably why entire business areas just got shitcanned every so often. One office in particular operated more like an old-fashioned university campus. There was a yearly release cadence, with 3-5 months of that dedicated purely to merging together the work that the teams had produced over the past 7-9.
- rcbdev 3y agoIBM Technology people seemed like that, yeah. I'm talking about IBM Consulting, where most (if not all) hiring seems to be happening recently.