worried - Mainframe Storage Administrator Kyndryl Employee Review

3.0
Feb 9, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

#best manager that I've ever had #work from home #trusted by my team and storage architects #my opinion matters to my team

Cons

#I have worked at other outsourcing companies and this experience is typical. #USA is a dumpster fire - when co-workers leave and are not replaced, their client list is farmed out to other members of the team #respected technical people leaving USA team - company started with 90,000 people two years ago and now down to the 70,000s overall #India team creates dozens of cute videos about name change from IBM to Kyndryl and gets recognition for it #Cannot take vacation without laptop - I have been required to leave scheduled vacation and logon when client needed support although it was not my issue to resolve #periodically informed on Thursday or Friday that you are required to work Sunday morning at 2am

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5.0
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Cons

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2.0
Jun 22, 2026
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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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