Company: IBM
Date: 2009-08-11
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current

All work and no play makes IBM the place for you.
Pros: IBM has some outstanding consultants and can do almost any project from business outsourcing through strategy/management consulting.  IBM is extremely broad and most people can find a place for themselves.
Cons: IBM GBS is wrought with politics.  Even though IBM can do so many things ranging from software to hardware and finally services, getting the groups to work together is extremely difficult.  It is even hard within Services to get different Service Lines to work together.  Partners tend to worry too much about how their group is looking and not look out for the overall good of the company.  Additionally, when in global services, you never feel safe.  You feel that you could be layed off (resource actioned) out at any point in time.  Throughout this year, I have known a considerable number of top performers RA'ed due to billable numbers, and not need.