So I just got hired at IBM as a Full Stack developer

So I just got hired at IBM as a Full Stack developer.

What does Sup Forums think of IBM. Can they win the cloud war?(Amazon, Microsoft)

Or should I switch companies asap?

pakjeet, you can do better

Switch companies and sell your stock now owo

They lost out on the cloud war

I work at a defense firm, we only have RTC shit left

lol ibm is making block chain for banks

Sucks they ate softlayer.

We have some old SL servers at work, they're decent and support is fairly helpful but holy balls are they expensive.

>What does Sup Forums think of IBM.
They pump out overpriced enterprise shit and nothing else. They used to be the computer company, just like Bell was the phone company for so long. But IBM sold off their consumer product lines and threw that all away in favor of frivolous shit like server hardware. Now nobody knows who the fuck they are. They're the "literally who?" of computer companies. They only way they could possibly come back from their massive fuckup is to start making PowerPC machines for consumers, since all we have now is insecure Intel/AMD trash and some little company is building desktop PCs out of their server hardware.

>Can they win the cloud war?
Nobody will. It's not a war worth fighting because cloud shit is fucking awful. Even beyond the privacy aspect of it, nobody wants to pay for that bullshit on a subscription and so it isn't sustainable. And do you really think that normies are thrilled about having to connect to the internet to find everything? Especially when they're already raped in the ass non-stop by cell carriers and their 4GB or even 2GB data caps? No, of course not. Cloud garbage is a race to the bottom of the shit pile, just like other dumb toys like VR and smart appliances. But even those are fun to play with for a few days. What does your cloud shit offer the average person? Fucking nothing. I keep all my stuff locally since large capacity hard disks are so damn cheap. You're only making money off of big companies that need to rent your processing power or storage, and you use contracts and proprietary software and services to lock them in. Again, not sustainable. Microsoft did and now governments are looking for alternatives to their software and services. Even the US DoL is fucking appalled at their Pajeet-tier code and we're looking to replace all the backend stuff starting sometime around 2020 when contracts and Winshit 7 EoL are due. So enjoy it while it lasts. I wouldn't invest a penny in IBM.

A quality post for a change. Well done.

>IBM sold off their consumer product lines and threw that all away in favor of frivolous shit like server hardware.
The problem was that they never made Dollar 1 on PCs. The simple fact was that IBM's internal systems were not set set up to sell small stuff except as part of a bigger deal. Retail, or even through dealers, was a disaster. No experience coupled with a complete misunderstanding of the PC market combined to waste millions.
One of the young guys from our branch kept getting seconded to Austin to help with the networking software for OS/2. He had 2-3 years experience as a sales engineer and a degree in mechanical engineering. No amount of enthusiasm was going to help there.
IBM HQ wanted big margins (the gross margin on a mainframe is 90%) which were unsustainable on a volume product. As soon as the BIOS was reverse engineered legally, IBM was sunk. The race to the bottom was on.

once ibm lost association with the thinkpad brand i almost forgot they existed

>Or should I switch companies asap?
No absolutely not. If you just got hired by a company the worst thing you can possibly do is swap employers. Shows a great deal of disloyalty.

I don't think IBM is out of the cloud race just yet. It would be foolish to count a company with its history out.

THIS.POST (looks like mr robot behind that barrel)

Literally everything you said was wrong but ok

I honestly feel bad for you OP. Good luck!

Literally the worst cloud provider by a mile, absolute garbage.

shows disloyalty? sometimes you need to GTFO

Only sane post ITT.
Even if everything goes bad, the move is to gain some experience and jump ship after. Alternatives in the cloud space would prioritize you anyways due to the experience at another major player.

>should I switch companies asap

Who gives a shit what happens to the company, just take the money and run. How much you getting?

they are winning the "internal cloud" war. whatever that fucking means.

>PowerPC machines for consumers
Talos II nibbuh.

IBM should buyback ThinkPad from Lenovo, and they should provide AWS-like cloud services for cheaper than Amazon. There's no brand loyalty problem here. If IBM offers a better deal, companies will switch from AWS.

>Talos II
that is prosumer/workplace stuff, imagine if you could buy a PowerPC desktop for $499
it'd still fail though because nosoftware normies would use besides browsers

Stop replying to your own post, you sheltered cockrag.

>cloud war
Who is seriously investing in cloud these days from a business consumption standpoint? Most businesses are looking to divest themselves of cloudshit since they don't control it and often don't like the terms. There is no point in paying someone else to sell your data to a third party when running company wide servers and services has been cut and dried for decades at this point.

maybe if you're a nobudget meme mid size business or unit. It's hard to beat standardized tools built around apis that are generally implemented correctly and can scale in timeframes of minutes.

A managed VMWare ESXi "private cloud", and by managed they mean a clusterfuck of pajeets pooing on you.

>Being this triggered
Forgot your pills today?

>overpriced enterprise shit
I agree. fuck off ibm

not OP but I worked at IBM for almost 2 years and now they want me back in the same position. Accepted an offer for July. Just recently got offered a much more interesting position at Huawei. I'm wondering if I can/should reject them and go for the better position or go back to my (very comfy) IBM position with good chance for promotion but I won't learn anything because old position.

T. 23yo new grad.

Forgot to add. Went back to school after those 2 years at IBM and just finishing now

Get ready to get worked to death. At least if you're working in Austin, idk about the other locations.
Also RTC needs to die in a fucking fire.

Very dependent on your team, I was in IBM Canada and some guys on my team literally slept the whole day.

You
Are
Fucking
Retarded.
What kind of idiot thinks that "cloud" in this context refers to data storage for normies? Holy shit.

Sounds nice. They really are resting on their laurels though, they have their monolithic enterprise contracts that aren't going anywhere. I moved to a large bank that has had a contract with IBM since the first mainframe came out, and we pay them around $60-$80m a year. Fun fact: every time a user transaction on the website or an app hits one of those mainframes, we pay IBM 10 cents.

As shitty of a company they may be OP, my uncle's new wife works in legal stuff IBM and everything appears fine with her job and so I think your at least be fine in that respect.

USAA right? So you moved from Austin to San Antonio?

Guilty as charged. AMA I guess

Triggered 2: The Triggering

I actually printed a screenshot of your comments and hung it up in our office. We are all laughing at you as we speak.