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Interesting, IBM itself celebrated its centenary when I was there in 2011 or early 2012.

We got a cupcake, some badges and some sort of stock grant - the company would do something like put aside $1k worth of stock at 2011 prices for each employee, and anyone who was there 10 years later would actually receive the shares.

I'm not aware of a single person who received that grant because the development lab I worked in back then got shut down a few years after I had moved on. And looking at the stock price movements in that time, $1600 bucks is not a lot for ten years loyalty!



lol i remember this, we all got like 6 total RSUs and were supposed to be ecstatic about it. and yes they fired all of us before ever paying out


I guess it depends on which event you consider the start of IBM. I know a fair number of people who have been there for 20 to 30 years.


When I was there during that time we got a book about the history and how IBM saw itself.


Oh yeah, there was a book too :)


Did it mention IBM's role in the holocaust?


Yes, a fact which my father (who is Jewish) was unaware of when he worked there in the 80s.




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