Company: IBM
Date: 2011-08-16
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current

Not as good as it was 5 years ago
Pros: - Secondary benefits are quite okay if you add them all up
- Perceived by many clients resp.marketplace as prestigious
- Work in an international environment
Cons: - For consultants: relentless pressure on utilisation results in consultants being pushed from one project to another, without freedom to decide / steer career really. "Better accept this project vacancy, else you're on the bench and then you're job is under immediate threat...".
- Resource Management is not taken seriously: basically "do-it-yourself" attitude using intranet tools.
- Timeconsuming back-office processes: many senior consultants spend loads of time with internal, for clients non-value adding tasks (doing expenses, making project financial accruals/forecasts, approving labor, filling in loads of templates on financial forecasts, business forecasts etc).
- Zero budget for classroom training & education (don't understand that not everything can be learned computer-based)
- Falling behind in management consulting -- basically back to where it was ca. 10 years ago when it bought PwC. Managed to destroy rather than build up the consulting practice.
- Very impersonal culture, although you can be lucky to be part of a nice team.
- Immense pressure on spend reduction results in ridiculous spend measures: travel freezes, education stops, having to stay in cheap hotels, extra travel hours, no budget for informal get-to-gethers (not even once a year) etc etc.