IBM always recruited right out of college to keep fresh blood flowing, but they trained them, instilled work habits, standards of conduct, even including appearance and deportment. IBM produced young eager fresh thinkers, but with a culture of high... — read more 

I just looked at Glassdoor for the first time in many months. When did it become the PR website for IBM?

http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2017/04/30/ibm-ceo-rometty-says-lower-tax-rate-territorial-tax-system-will-enable-growth.html BM President and CEO Ginni Rometty said Sunday that America needs a revamp of its tax system, particularly the corporate... — read more 

Watch the video, almost 6min. Her words are totally laughable. And it seems quite apparent that she's going into politics after she retires or is fired. http://finance.yahoo.com/video/ibm-ceo-modernized-tax-system-144409403.html

Ginni has to keep stroking Trump, as she's gotta be salivating with anticipation of this actually happening. And be sure to click on the WSJ article he links to in his post so you can get an historical perspective... — read more 

From the woman who doesn't have ceo skills http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2017/04/28/ibm-ceo-rometty-tackling-5-million-u-s-job-openings-that-cant-be-filled.html IBM CEO Ginni Rometty said the U.S. is facing a big workforce development problem... — read more 

https://www.thelayoff.com/t/N1WhxOp Intel is a dino-tech company. We've tried to dip our feet into services and consumer products, but we can't get it done. We're terrible at it. The decades of 'bozo explosion' managers have left us with silos and... — read more 

Board’s compensation decisions draw lowest support since 2011 Proxy advisers flagged CEO’s one-time grant, lack of targets https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-28/ibm-investors-slam-executive-pay-plan-as-ceo-rometty-gets-raise IBM’s... — read more 

IBM nowhere near the Top 20, not surprisingly. http://time.com/money/4748265/in-out-work-life-balance/ H&R Block Network Capital Funding Corporation In-N-Out Burger H-E-B Kaiser Permanente Intuit Southwest Airlines NIKE Century 21 Chick-Fil-A Capital... — read more 

These are headlines from various financial publications and websites: "U.S. Stocks Edge Up, Buoyed by Tech Sector" "Tech’s Titans Go From Big to Bigger; Scale of Amazon, Microsoft and Google hard to combat as tech industry shifts to new markets"... — read more 

Ut-Oh. This just in, folks. IBM has canceled the World of Watson conference that was slated for this October. Not exactly a good thing. They say they'll fold all of their conferences together in March 2018, since nobody really goes to them anymore... — read more 

They keep hiring Indians with 457 visas here in Australia, they underpay them. Meanwhile, Australian citizens are being RA'ed...

Mark Witte is the only one who challenged Ginny during the shareholders meeting... The only sign of discontent from shareholders came during the question-and-answer period. Tampa shareholder Mark Witte asked what IBM was doing to monetize... — read more 

"CEO Ginni Rometty led the meeting, delivering an update on IBM's plans and financial performance. She reaffirmed the company's push toward software instead of hardware as its way forward." Methinks some H/W divestitures will be occurring very soon... — read more 

IBM has just seen 20 quarters of falling revenue. The market has been somewhat understanding as the company goes through the transition. Many lost patience on April 18th when the Q1 earnings failed to stop the decline, and the next day the stock... — read more 

Shouldn't IBM be using their own technology first ? With revenue going down unable to renew contracts http://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-ibm-wants-to-use-watson-to-better-help-businesses-predict-customer-behavior/ IBM's cognitive processor... — read more 

Fire all the older workers and hire a bunch of young'uns. It saves a lot of money right? No, because it costs a lot more in lost skills, knowledge, culture, and work ethic. Leadership is thrashing and grasping at straws. Now they're populating Armonk... — read more 

Hi, I'm an outsider looking to get in, and have been following IBM's contributions to the open source Hyperledger Fabric project. Anyone have any insight/opinions on it, and/or the teams working on it? It looks like there's a lot of cool activity in... — read more 

http://www.myvisajobs.com/Reports/2017-H1B-Visa-Sponsor.aspx 4 - IBM

Damn, so close. . . "Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM, which sells computer services, hardware and software, said 47 percent of votes cast were in favor of the options-expensing proposal, narrowly defeating the plan."... — read more 

"The $202.1 billion California State Teachers' Retirement System, West Sacramento; C$175.6 billion ($131.7 billion) Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, Toronto; Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Toronto; $133.2 billion Texas Teacher Retirement... — read more 

As long as this gets voted down today, then Ginni's days are definitely numbered. She's already the sixth highest paid CEO!??! Tragic. http://finance.yahoo.com/video/ibm-ceo-ginni-romettys-33-222627076.html

Check this out: As I progressed through life and my 30 years at IBM, my job interests changed. IBM has so many career opportunities and remains so current, that I was able to move from engineering to project management to consulting to sales and to... — read more 

IBM was once a great company of which to be apart. When I grew up and was in 1st grade we all stood up and spoke about where our father's worked. Ninety-five percent of my class said their father's worked for IBM... I said mine was a real estate... — read more 

IBM Watson and Watson Health are at least 75% behind on revenue. There will definitely be more layoffs. This company is going downhill than anyone realizes. I am part of the GBS services group and most people are trying to be as utilized as they can... — read more 

Finally got RA'ed, still the usual bull "co-location" and I was declared redundant because of "Cloud and Cognitive" funny thing though both blew up on AU census and now MD Anderson. I already saw it coming when all of my predecessors, peers and... — read more 

The only software that is making money at IBM is the old on-premise stuff like WAS, MQ, IIB, CICS and the likes... The Cloud is a disaster because IBM just does not know how to do it. The Cloud leaders, Microsoft, AWS, Google and the likes spend 10... — read more 

I mean, it's 20 Qs of drops, right?

I'd really like to know where in my salary band I fall, but the higher up you move, the more "taboo" it seems to talk salary. HR publishes the various job roles which along with your band level dictates your salary range. They also publish the rough... — read more 

"Red Flag The company, which awarded Rometty 1.5 million stock options on a one-time basis in January 2016, valued the grant at $12.1 million. That came on top of her normal compensation, consisting of about $21 million in salary, bonus and shares... — read more 

ONE THIRD! Just shy of one-third of IBM's global workforce is now based in India and Bangladesh, a leaked internal blog has indicated. (Source: El Reg - https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/31/one_third_ibm_staff_in_india_bangladesh/ ) World+dog was... — read more 

Have fun reading this - it'll cure cancer as well: http://www.techrepublic.com/article/meet-the-ibm-watson-powered-robot-that-could-make-your-next-smartphone/

http://247wallst.com/technology-3/2017/04/19/why-analysts-are-cutting-their-targets-on-ibm/ International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) reported first-quarter earnings results after markets closed on Tuesday. Overall this was a very weak... — read more 

http://247wallst.com/technology-3/2017/04/22/ibm-shares-wont-stop-falling/ International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) did not get a bounce in share price that day after its stock plunged due to poor earnings. The stock fell again the second... — read more 

An email was sent at the end of this past week saying that a reorg/shakeup is coming next week or 'soon' in cloud sales, and I would assume that means cutbacks and consolidation, probably also at the management level as well as in the teams. Then... — read more 

Read. The. WHOLE. Article. https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamhartung/2017/04/21/why-you-do-not-want-to-own-ibm-growth-stalls-are-deadly/#11af963671bf . . . The stock is still up from January, 2016 lows of $125, and you might think this pullback is a... — read more 

Get ready for this one. Just months ago Ginni presented at the conference trying to push the Watson, AI, Cloud and Cognitive story to the people at the conference. Next week IBM to announce World of Watson conference will NOT be taking place in... — read more 

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-18/ibm-tumbles-after-posting-lowest-revenue-15-years-20th-consecutive-quarter-declining

"As the Motley Fool noted, the miss and resulting tumble erased nearly $9 billion from IBM’s market capitalization and brought the Dow Jones Industrial Average down by 64 points. . . . So gross margins are putting pressure on a business that needs to... — read more 

This needs to happen ASAP if IBM wants to survive. Hardware is bleeding money left and right, it's time to go (it's overdue though)...