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FWIW, IBM knows they are a dinosaur and are trying to rectify that. They are hiring competent execs from outside and putting them in very high positions in the
by jedberg 1y ago
FWIW, IBM knows they are a dinosaur and are trying to rectify that. They are hiring competent execs from outside and putting them in very high positions in the org in an attempt to remake IBM to be a more nimble tech company.
- jonfw 1y agoI see this happening live- very senior folks are "retiring" in a volume I've never seen before. Will hopefully be good for the company. Unfortunately, we are not seeing much in the way of a flattened org chart, which is another thing that I believe is holding the company back.
- speff 1y agoI'm not sure that'll be enough to save them. I've known various people who've worked there in different departments - dev, accounting, UX - and none of them had anything good to say about the company or its culture. My impression of IBM is that it's completely rotten.
- pjmlp 1y agoYet they keep leading in patents per year, being the only major alternative to Oracle in Java, one of the major contributors to key Linux subsystems (kernel and everything else mostly done by Red-Hat like GNOME and GCC),....