Making it up as they go along, quickly becoming the worst of IBM. - Partner Kyndryl Employee Review

2.0
24 Aug 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great legacy with IBM GTS, as such they have access to a stellar account base. Some good people. They are working hard to provide more comprehensive services. Salaries can be good for some when they don't change the comp plan.

Cons

For some reason they did not protect themselves when the contracts novated over from IBM. So that when IBM raises their prices to Kyndryl, they try and pass it along to their customers even mid-contract with them. This causes a customer sat issue. Lots of sat issues. Not focusing on organic growth but only on the few profitable clients. Old time IBM management employees form a click and protect themselves at the cost of efficiency. There is a lot of people staying in roles where they should be shifted and moved around. Others are promoted prematurely based on old connections. Perhaps they will have a management RIF. Top leaders have exorbitant salaries while they rework the comp plan to focus on GP and reduce commissions to those who own the day to day relationships. ( see my comment above on why that is harsh - they artificially raise allocation on SOW's to increase cost of sales )

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5.0
23 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Benefit, Paid Leave, Growth opportunity.

Cons

Job opening limited in may other fields.

2.0
22 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Remote work, vacation, coworkers are usually pretty chill, 3 months on the bench to look for a new job before you're laid off

Cons

10-11K planned to be laid off this year and they aren't going after the worst performers, they're just cutting out whatever section looks good in excel. Poor profitability. Constant reorgs. Say they're a flat organization but keep getting more and more vertical. the last manager I got transferred to took months to have a meeting with my group and when he did, it was only to let us know we were getting cut, never-mind that we had a presentation on how to save a couple million on a type of software license that the company had to have to do business. They still use a stacked ranking for employee review, so if your whole team had an outstanding year and surpassed every goal, only 5-10% will be graded as outstanding and 10-15% will get expects more. Even when I got into that 5-10% exceeds, the raise for that year was still only 2%. One year I got a promotion from band 4 to 5, still only a 2% raise. Your pay will be as flat as a plains state. After 15+ years in this company, it feels like leaving an abusive relationship. Yes, it's not all bad, but you have to recognize that it still wasn't good for you.

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