My tale with IBM.How hiring movie producers !!! (Score 1)

BM is STUFFED with Managers Who like to CONTROL decisions in a manner that benefits them personally rather than in the interest of the project.
They CREATE work out of nowhere and push themselves onto pretty much any client. E.g. they would contract operations support fix bid contract with Wellpoint or EDI for $1 million. When this happens , full time personnel in that place will be laid off. This happens in total connivance with managers at the Client site with IBM managers. Sometimes IBM pushes their own âconsultantsâ(TM) to work as full time staff
with the end client. The managers so hired at e.g. Well point will then be instrumental in
Getting âoeIBM insideâ .
Once IBM âoeis inâ. Next step â" is to âoepush their productâ as a cheaper replacement
for an existing product. At least that is what is apparently said â" but of course their
âinside pullâ(TM) with the âoeclientâ gets the product inside. None of this has a telephone or email trail â" its done almost Exclusively over lunch meeting around client site. So initially IBM came there to reduce operational costs for the next 5 years on a fixed bid of $1million and they got another contract for $2 million for their product. This will be at the cost of further layoffs at the client site. Finally there will be a stage â" where ENTIRE I.T operations of a client are totally in hands of IBM. I have seen such clients â" I.T. totally outsourced to IBM .

Its does not end there â" IBMâ(TM)s hiring practices US for consultants are some of the most
debauched . A lot of IBM staff is on visas and the rest of the consultants from US are âhand pickedâ(TM) by the managerâ(TM)s âoetoucher magiqueâ . These visa people know their work well ( for the most , but exceptions are easy to spot ) but are at the mercy of managers who control them like dogs on a leash. Theyâ(TM)d tell them where to stay , what to eat , how much to spend and whatâ(TM)d be the color of their underpants. I PERSONALLY know of an IBM employee who hadnâ(TM)t a strong background for the kind of work she was doing and I wondered what the connection was with her being there. I worked for another company at that time and they booked us into the same Holiday Inn. I would see her van ride pull up every other night and she âd be back at 3, sometimes in the managerâ(TM)s Lexus .
A recruiter for a prominent IBM vendor ( these are partner companies that hire consultants for IBM for IBMâ(TM)s end client projects ) told me that IBM managers will collect resumes for formalityâ(TM)s sake- they get tossed into shredders âeven before they âd be receivedâ(TM) â" if one would say . In reality they dictate the choice of candidate via âoepass through recommendationsâ . These âoepass throughsâ are based on a personal relationship to the candidate of course , but often times , there is a kickback from the vendor to IBM. Typically for the latter situations the consultants is one who is willing to get horribly low balled on his rate
E.g. market rate for a Filenet / JSP / Struts Java Architect is $90 / hr. The IBM manager will âchooseâ(TM) a willing candidate who can work at $30 / hr. Heâ(TM)d tell the vendor to collect resumes for this IBM position and ALL THE EXPERIENCE from those resumes is now transferred (== copy pasted ) to that of the novice whoâ(TM)s willing to do $30. $40 from billing goes to the IBM manager. IBM charges $120 for him at the client site. Of Course this novice does not know squat about hibernate or Filenet . Since he knows heâ(TM)s zero â" his existence on that job depends on shining the managers shoes and the manager likes to take his dog out for walk every morning. Itâ(TM)s a nice master pet relationship till it can go on.

At this point most folks will be cussing IBM , ah ..look its those Indian Managers.
But I can tell ya from my personal exp . That is NOT the case . These folks belong to a LOT of other nationalities Chinese , Pakistaniâ(TM)s and Bangladeshiâ(TM)s to name a few. So its not just endemic to Indians , though there maybe some Indians.
I am a Java Architect and have been chasing Java and related technologies since Sun came out with their 1st JDK. I worked for 5 years with SUN on their openoffice project and totally I have 13+ yrs as freelance I.T consultant.
If I get requirements for my work related stuff in VA NJ or some similar East Coast place â" I first ask â" is this an IBM project. âoe Not interestedâ . I am very selective about whom I give my resume â" making sure that my experience does not get copied at the behest of some IBM manager to another novice.

Anonymity is a wonderful thing â" its perhaps the only tool that helps you to defend the 1st Amendment. And I will invoke it one last time again in this write up by naming some names.

Where opportunity is precious , cartelling will be laid law. These guys from pak canâ(TM)t do anything but join the army ,play that Brittie game â" Cricket or sit in some madarassa with a year long unshaven beard in their country -thinking where to throw their next rockets â" Israel , Afghanistan or India . I donâ(TM)t think itâ(TM)s the exact .same case with places like maybe Philippines or India. Just to clarify â" I am not against an specific ethnicity of people. My point lies in asking this question â If they didâ(TM)nt secure their jobs without such predatory , aggressive and outright scumbag fraudulent methods they used , where would they be ?â If the answer is âoeIn Hellâ ,then you see how much more valuable the opportunity is for them. And why should you be surprised if theyâ(TM)ve found ways to pay the cost of keeping that job, because there arenâ(TM)t too many options around.
( does that mean you have to create opportunities for them in their country so they donâ(TM)t do this ? Well then Ted Bundy too shouldnâ(TM)t be executed. He should have received full psychological counseling, supportive treatment, better parental care and rehab so he does not kill the next girl on the street )