[harvestsnaps]

I’ve been with IBM for about 3 years now and I’ve found the talent pool to be diluted. There’s talented engineers and not so talented engineers. I’ve met some people where I get the impression that they’ve settled and are just coasting to earn their paycheck. IBM isn’t doing a good job with keeping the top talent in terms of compensation, so the good people leave.

I don’t know how they’re determining people to fire. My opinion is that they’re pruning the moochers

[blihp]

Unfortunately that's what happens to a company that's been run the way IBM has for the last ~25 years. The top talent with career aspirations bailed long ago. That's not to say there aren't still competent and talented people there, just that the most ambitious (whether for money, cool projects, promotion track etc) are long gone. Unfortunately for IBM, those were the folks that should have been helping management identify the dead wood which has been piling up. The most talented people still around probably learned long ago to keep their head down and mouth shut so they've de-prioritized 'the company' and it's probably just put in their hours each week and forget about work when they clock out.

[pkaye]

If they have a lot of moochers then they should fire the executives for bad decisions.

[walshemj]

It wont be from direct experience at other large companies the sort of people you are talking about are clued up enough to tick the right boxes.

It will be disabled, BAME etc that will get targeted / put on pip's etc.