I have spoken with 2 Band D staff (director / distinguished engineer in IBM speak) who both confirmed that bonuses at a smaller % of the prior years were set to be paid soon. Apparently all letter band 'execs' were to be paid some cash for 2020... — read more 

Reading in between the lines of JW is saying in this 2 minute video from 18 Feb. 2021: prepare for more divestitures, spin-offs, RAs, and anything else to "right-size" Big Bleu very... — read more 

The United States. We are still determining the city and state. Translation: Big Bleu is shopping around for the most insane tax incentives offer from some poor, unsuspecting, naïve state/county/municipality that they can sukker in for a 10+... — read more 

Here we go. . . How many folks beyond those just in Watson Health get packaged & shipped-out with this deal? By: Laura Cooper and Cara Lombardo Updated Feb. 18, 2021 8:21 pm ET... — read more 

https://www.facebook.com/alliancemember/posts/1936329643171677 "Changes of this new Co Is now happening. RA in The US Accounts Receivable Dept in GDL Mexico."

People constantly keep asking here and at work if they're safe and I figured out a nice, handy guide for everybody to determine it once and for all. Is your pay more than average but you're not a part of the ELT or related to any of them? Ding ding... — read more 

Good luck, AK. https://www.pcmag.com/news/four-companies-control-67-of-the-worlds-cloud-infrastructure

( A follow-up to this post: @OP+19leAD5l ) By: Gerard Yates Feb. 16, 2021 11:27 am ET https://www.wsj.com/articles/top-companies-for-customer-satisfaction-11613492860 International Business Machines Corp. is No. 1 for customer satisfaction... — read more 

Another one jumps overboard. Also, CTO of eSports? Really? https://esportsobserver.com/ibm-cto-esports-exits-company/

Conclusion I will reiterate my opinion that IBM is a significant value trap stock in the best-case scenario. The company's revenues have been steadily declining, while it uses high leverage for producing its low returns, and it is at... — read more 

I received an email today from my "manager", telling me I needed to close $4m of new TCV signings in 1Q21. This is the first I have gotten any sales goals or quota info., considering that I have been with GTS since October 2020. Again, on Feb.17 ... — read more 

Last month in a letter to nominees to lead the Labor and Education Departments, Obed Louissaint, a senior IBM executive, asked the government to expand eligibility for $130 billion in annual student aid. About 65% of Americans who... — read more 

For those who already gave 2 weeks notice, did you guys tell your managers or peers where you will be going? The company you will be joining, anything negative by telling them? Or do most of the people wait till last day? What will you tell your boss... — read more 

Do you know why things will continue to go downhill? Because there is zero talent left to steer this company in the right direction. Most of the talented people are gone through layoffs. Those few who were not affected in the past five or more years... — read more 

Hello Everyone, Apologies for being off-topic (non-layoff topic). I found that IBM offers a free service 'MoneySmart' to US employees and it's on Fidelity portal. The description says 'IBM MoneySmart financial planning program: one-on-one... — read more 

IBM - The Ugly IBM has struggled to generate top line growth since 2011 when revenue peaked at nearly $104.8B. Revenue in the LTM was $72.3B. This decline largely coincides with the tenure of the previous CEO. For far too long, IBM... — read more 

After ~10 years at IBM, I gave my 2 weeks notice to my manager on Friday. No, I don't have anything lined up. But I just can't take this anymore. The incompetence. Constantly laying off the few high performers we have. I wanted to do this last year... — read more 

Show just how poorly IBM is performing in this era: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2020/12/08/software-company-snowflake-overtakes-ibm-value-just-three-months/ The cloud storage firm Snowflake has overtaken IBM in market value just... — read more 

IBM still has a lot of deadwood that needs to get trimmed but at the same time it desperately needs to hire talent, those two times don't seem to match but they actually do. IBM has reached a point where the really talented ones either have left... — read more 

LaFleche comes to the new role after spending the last three-plus years as IBM’s managing director for the State of New York. Wasn't there a debacle and mishandling by IBM last year with their State of NY Dept of Labor Help Desk contract? Oh... — read more 

I understand if we do not follow the Content Rule then the Privacy Policy applies. But I am wondering if the organization can find out who posted what here. I am in the process of my exit via layoff, and was reading the Separation docs and basically... — read more 

For employees who purchased a phone at a discount, tied to a call/data plan with a provider: normally after a period of 2 years, the contract with the carrier is fulfilled and the device is yours. But what if you are let go or leave earlier? Does the... — read more 

The other day @1ief+19h9ytUd posted this link: https://regmedia.co.uk/2019/07/31/ibm.pdf Which is from a lawsuit in Texas. I read through the entire thing as it shows how we’re chosen for layoff. I urge you to read it too. It seems the case is... — read more 

The proof is in the numbers..70% of IBMers believe layoffs are coming. Don't try to hide the facts or discredit the article. https://insights.dice.com/2021/02/03/technologists-fear-layoffs-coming-at-some-of-techs-biggest-companies/

Good evening. If I apply for an internal IBM post and if I don’t hear back by Monday, 2/15, how does IBM handle those situations. I know you probably say leave and don’t look back, I have some tough financial situation that is going to be very... — read more 

Nearly two years after its mega-buy of Raleigh-based Red Hat, the new IBM has yet to fully materialize - _and analysts are getting fed up._ A colossal understatement if there ever was one. In the meantime, Red Hat proper is carrying on... — read more 

Owner & Founder of NET Steven Zolman take on IBM's role. https://www.netnetweb.com/content/blog/ibms-diminishing-role-in-the-modern-enterprise

IBM ‘s overall score rose 14.9 points from 2019 to 2020. The company is third in the 2020 overall ranking with a score of 95.7. Microsoft Corp. is the highest-ranked company overall, with a score of 103. *IBM’s biggest improvement came in... — read more 

https://seekingalpha.com/news/3660183-instacart-ibm-sign-mutual-patent-agreement

Another RH exec. cashes out. I'd interpret it as a resounding vote of "no confidence" and seems they know something us worker bees... — read more 

With minimum pay in tech how do you guys motivate yourself to wake up and goto work at ibm? My salary hasn't changed in 2 years, not even adjusted for inflation and they took away whatever tiny gdp bonus they gave. I have stopped watching AKs... — read more 

Without providing a time frame, Thomas said he expects the partnership to help boost IBM’s customers using AI to 80% from its current 20%. So a targeted 4x increase of AI customers in an unspecified amount of time? Sounds like precedent is... — read more 

https://siliconangle.com/2021/02/07/big-4-cloud-providers-revenue-poised-surpass-115b-year/ Let's see what they have to say about IBM: ‘Oracle and IBM have clouds too’ We hear this frequently and so we’ve put Oracle Corp. and IBM Corp. on... — read more 

This is IBM’s go to market strategy outside of the Fortune 500 GBS employees take notice https://seekingalpha.com/news/3659396-palantir-stock-gains-on-joint-ai-application-product-with-ibm

Does anybody has any information on the situation in Slovakia? Any IBMer from Slovakia? They announced the layoffs last year. Are they happening now?

Scrolling through linkedin and so many experience employees leaving feb 5th. Did something happened why is there such a large heard of people leaving at once?

Your pal Deep Throat here. I have waited until MSFT (Azure), AMZN (AWS) and GOOG (Google Cloud) reported their Q4 2020 and full year 2020 results to add my commentary. Before I do so, a quick recap on what I have said in other letters/memos: 1)... — read more 

This may be helpful to some RAed to read. A New Jersey age discrimination case filed in the state court by https://www.cahnparralaw.com/ latest action is a motion to depose the CEO. The filings are available... — read more 

Has anyone who has been RA'ed in previous rounds taken advantage of this? Is the reimbursement process a pain? It seems very easy, but IBM makes nothing easy.

Pay attention to all the messaging here. https://fortune.com/2021/02/02/ibm-salaries-jobs-training-new-collar-covid-economy/