IBM is proud to be in the forefront of workforce training and development
In all the years I was at IBM (almost 20) I was only ever allowed to do 2 external training courses, after a huge amount of justification and pleading to be allowed to do them. There is never any money in the budget for training, NEVER. You can put whatever you like in your "Development Plan", your manager will approve it, but you are never allowed to go on training.
IBM's idea of training and development is to put billions of meaningless slide shows on the intranet, and let you try and find them, and do them on your own time, and insist you do at least 40 hours of it every year, UNPAID.
Actually I've seen recently a lot of my ex collegues spamming Linkedin with some meaningless "acclaim" certifications. No doubt some other meaningless web based rubbish from IBM.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
