Same Old Corporateness :) - Senior Project Manager Kyndryl Employee Review

2.0
Sep 9, 2023
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Pros

Not sure if my experience was the same as others because I was hired by a manager who I already knew and she was brought over from another major corporation, but I was paid well and left to do my job remotely without a manager wanting my butt in a seat to prove I can work.

Cons

They try to sell themselves as different than IBM or other older more established corporations but the reality is they took a bunch of IBM old guard and moved them over so a lot of the backdoor dealings are the same. I found upper management to be less than forthright which is expected but not only that they downright lied to hundreds of us for months before we were finally given a measly 2 weeks notice. They prefer offshore Costa Rica or India workers because they are cheaper even if it means a lower quality of work or that others have to do rework.

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5.0
Jun 23, 2026
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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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