Re:Reports Coming in of Big IBM Layoffs Underway in the U.S.
by PhantomGremlin on Thursday March 03, 2016 @08:53PM
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Narrow skillsets?
Purely anecdotal, but what I've heard is that chip jobs at IBM (and at Intel FWIW) are very narrow and silo-ed.
Good for the company in two ways:
1) employee gets really good at that particular job
2) IBM internal tools and procedures are different than general practice. Other companies that are looking for X don't want to hire an employee who has only done Y, even though X and Y aren't too different, and even though any smart person can quickly pick up X. Consequently, employee can't easily go elsewhere.
Purely anecdotal, but what I've heard is that chip jobs at IBM (and at Intel FWIW) are very narrow and silo-ed.
Good for the company in two ways:
1) employee gets really good at that particular job
2) IBM internal tools and procedures are different than general practice. Other companies that are looking for X don't want to hire an employee who has only done Y, even though X and Y aren't too different, and even though any smart person can quickly pick up X. Consequently, employee can't easily go elsewhere.