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Re:IBM to Acquire Confluent by victords on Monday December 08, 2025 @07:28PM (#46199737)
The way you put it, looks like IBM is a pretty good place to work at
Re:IBM to Acquire Confluent by DrewADesign on Monday December 08, 2025 @07:43PM (#46199864)
Aside from having like 9 managers, 8 of whom are totally purposeless in your professional life, then yeah it’s not bad. The benefits are good.

I worked with some pretty talented and dedicated people at IBM. The “hop on a 2am call to put out a fire because they happened to check their email and they owed the person on pager duty a beer” kind of people.

That company was a red tape rats nest, but that’s management’s fault. And you get lazy people or shit departmental culture at various points in nearly every company, but painting a tens-of-thousands strong workforce with that brush is ridiculous.

Re:IBM to Acquire Confluent by dwaltrip on Monday December 08, 2025 @08:57PM (#46200411)
Sounds miserable if you like solving real problems.