Not far from the parent IBM ageist tree - Team Lead Kyndryl Employee Review

2.0
Sep 6, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Adequate salary; benefits are in-line with other companies

Cons

Company desperately trying to figure out what it wants to be, which leads to turmoil. The latest headlong lurch is to become a consultancy. Very easy to feel disconnected from anything beyond your immediate work group. Appears to have inherited the ageist tendencies of its parent, IBM. New-collar and offshore workers welcome. Experienced, domestic workers, folks-not so much.

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5.0
Jun 23, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Benefit, Paid Leave, Growth opportunity.

Cons

Job opening limited in may other fields.

2.0
Jun 22, 2026
Recommend
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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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