Company: IBM
Date: 2014-05-23
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former

Work-life balance?  What balance?
Pros: IBM provides employees with challenging and unique work opportunities.  As a consultant you work with some of the top corporations world-wide.
Cons: If you work as a consultant, prepare to work extremely hard and travel extensively.  I usually flew out to the client site on Sunday and made it back home late Friday evening.  Also, you'll be expected to contribute to other projects and assist in scoping new opportunities.  Most of these activities occur after hours of your primary project.  It's all about billable hours, so if you're not on vacation; you are expected to be on the road at a client site - no exception.  To compound matters, for your hard work you will receive no bonus on top of your base salary so negotiate your base carefully on the front end.