Re: Is it a really shit place to work if you're under 40?
Anyone that's 30 now, is not going to want to have IBM on their CV when they hit 50. It smells now and it will smell worse as time goes on. There are other, much more desirable company names to have on a CV than India Business Machines.
I am watching IBM (under) perform at the moment. It reminds me of the DotCom boom, when people would literally apply for IT jobs "because they had used Excel" at their previous employment. So-called Engineers in India try and run windows utilities in an iSeries Navigator session and want to remote desktop to the AS400. Their mum must be so proud of them, that they work with computers. Big ones!
Not all Indian IT are incompetent, but the ones that are, work for IBM.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
