Worst Employer ever - IT Project Manager Kyndryl Employee Review

1.0
25 Nov 2024
Recommend
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Pros

At least they paid me 75% of the salary and bonuses that I was promised.

Cons

Kyndrl is the most exploitive company I have ever come into contact with in all my years of working in a variety of fields. It is constantly overloading all of the employees who have yet to be lose their jobs to downsizing, outsourcing, or restructuring. Anyone who has not been cut yet is being expected to work 80 plus hours every week for no overtime. Bonuses have been withheld for the last 8 quarters because the company is losing so much money due to the fact that they are incompetent in so many areas. Then there is a bimonthly cycle of firing thousands of US employees, while retaining only employees from other countries. If you are making over six figures or are over 50 years old and you haven't been let go yet just know that unfortunately there is a target on your back that will be hit sometime in 2025. In the end Kyndrl will whittle its workforce down to the barest minimum to the point that it will not longer be able service and meet the needs of its remaining clients. This has already started to occur as the majority of projects are failing to meet their due dates because the small percentage of remaining employees are overburdened being expected to pick up the slack and complete of the assignments employees who have been fired with no additional compensation.

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5.0
23 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Benefit, Paid Leave, Growth opportunity.

Cons

Job opening limited in may other fields.

2.0
22 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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