Company: IBM
Date: 2016-12-08
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

IBM GTS SO Delivery - Canada - Caveat Emptor
Pros: Flexibility to work from home
Big Campus/Free Parking
Not micro-managed as long as you keep delivering
Adequate Medical and Match Benefits (for individual not so much extended family)
Excellent Executive Project Delivery Staff
Hard Working Cross Divisional Staff;
When business is good, the projects can get interesting, once the train starts moving it is hard to stop
Cons: Abysmal Employee Review System (prior and current)
Raises are few and far between (dependent on Organizational performance for the year)
Robotic HR Staff
Myriad of Managers (direct and portfolio) over career, some care about your well-being and provide coaching/ mentor-ship and grapevine talk, others are awaiting their package and/or gold ticket to advancement
'CLAIM/Billing' system
Investment in employee training (paid courses) non existent 
Lack of growth opportunities (quarter by quarter loses = hiring freezes)
if you are a contractor looking to get Full-Time Status. Good Luck ( observed <5 in 8 yr. span)
Way too Driven by Finance and HR (going Lean and reducing Head Count is their agenda)
High Contractor Turnover/Churn - How can you build an adequate delivery team?
Lastly, worst of all - Reorgs, Redundancies, Offshoring (India,South America, Eastern Europe, tax incentive provinces -  the dreaded RESOURCE ACTION (IE., LAYOFFS). Employees are always on pins and needles, looking over their shoulder or for that once in a life time call from your portfolio manager..