IBM Layoffs Due to a Lack of Money and Company Debt Rising by Almost 10 Billion Dollars in 6 Months

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 13, 2025

"Is this a warning for what's coming in the next week or two?" -Somebody who left a comment (left only a few hours ago) regarding the below.

IBM is having problems. In Wall Street, however, IBM can bluff. Just like everybody else.

IBM's debt grows rapidly (profits gets pumped into buying revenue or buying other companies' revenue and thus fake "growth").

"Because Arvind wants a higher bonus and the shareholders want more dividends," as one comment (above) put it.

And "this should not be normalized," a commenter said hours ago, "really a lot of malpractices in this elitist company. whats worse, people succumb to these shit policies just to stay afloat. does IBM have a grievance committee where all complaints are being discussed? or maybe i should not asked coz management is a syndicate to cover assess and eradicate those who practice free speech..." (criticism of the CEO is spun as racism or sexism for others).

Check out this comment:

Well, when Red Hat people are PIPed or laid off, it'll be known as "IBM", due to the bluewashing.

"Just happened to me," said another commenter. "Team of inexperienced early hires and I had to teach them everything..then I got pip’d after babysitting them for 5 months. I was literally doing everyone’s job and working 10-12 hours a day."

Another one said: "And yet these same managers and second line managers and directors ask why so many people are leaving voluntarily-with or without a PIP or RA. When people wake up and see IBM for what it really is, they don’t want to bust ass for a company that forces managers to make up reasons for laying decent employees off. Here’s your friendly reminder that a tech world exists outside of IBM and we don’t have to make unfair and unethical decisions to line Arvind’s pockets."

Elsewhere, someone has just commented about Red Hat:

AK [IBM’s CEO ] never had a RedHat strategy. He positioned himself to manage the M&A so he could get the big job. Mission accomplished. His plan and actions have been to milk the RedHat revenue cow for up to 5 years and then all goes away (will remain as a small team somewhere doing maintenance for a while, until nobody even remembers there was a .$34 Billion all cash price tag involved). Hybrid Cloud strategy failure (AK's signature strategy he used to rise to the top job)? No problem, AK already distracted with AI, so Hybrid Cloud didn't go anywhere? No accountability, he made up another story: AI. AI is failing? Watson who? No problem, let's pump the Quantum story now.

Of course, he's got the trendy "Silicon Valley type" going for him too who play politics well to rise ranks, don't expect more (read between the lines).

Orphaned Intel drivers aren't the latest or the last problem. At Red Hat and Fedora, there's barely any community participation anymore. IBM didn't buy Red Hat for any ideological reasons; it was a fast "cash grab" for revenue. █