Company: IBM
Date: 2017-02-02
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current

OK
Pros: There is a core of good people here and I'm actually pleasantly surprised by most of the leadership knowing what they're talking about. 
IBM is genuinely doing a lot of good stuff in AI, charity, research - there's a lot going on. 
If you want to travel, to work hard, and see lots of large scale projects, this is a good place. 
Hursley is very nice, and there's a lot of work along the M4 corridor.
Cons: The travel is high and expected; this is not a family friendly place, in that you will never see your family, you'll be living out of a hotel or a train. 
The bureaucracy, the sheer scale of coordinating ~400,000 people worldwide.  
There is a regular "drum beat" of propaganda saying how brilliant IBM is and what it's doing; this does not translate to actual work available. 
There are a lot of angry or stressed people. 
You only see your line manager once a year, and he/she will be doing 80 hour weeks with no spare time.
There is a lot of fear that if your utilisation drops, or your title is not hot this month, you will be made redundant. This instantly makes many of the positive messages moot.
At the end of the day, this is consultancy, it's not about you, it's about the client.