Company: IBM
Date: 2016-05-09
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Deep Knowledge Resources
Pros: Outstanding knowledge base to draw on for execution of work functions on projects as well as a seemingly bottomless pool of educational material (not formally examined).
As a projectised organisation and due to the relatively small market in Australia you are likely to be assigned to a range of industry verticals, sometimes making it difficult to specialise. As a project manager you are likely to do the same as well as manage projects across a variety of technology domains.
Fantastic new technologies being brought to market in the cognitive computing space with the Watson offering. Some of it is truly remarkable and my advice is to come up to speed with this and other new offerings as quickly as possible.
It's considered the individual's responsibility to remain billable and not on the bench (on a project) - I would expect this to be the case for any consulting company.
Cons: The degree to which you may wind up on projects in different domains is determined by the amount of business that is signed, (in occasional lean times you may take what you can get to remain billable).
Salaries are generally medium to lowish for the industry depending on your skill set. If you come into the company in a technical role with sharp, in-demand skills - especially in cognitive - then you're likely to do well financially. For the rest, the pay increases are often in small increments. Bonuses for non-sales employees are nothing to write home about.