Company: IBM
Date: 2018-04-19
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Associate Partner
Pros: IBMers are great people, many of whom I consider friends.  Exceptional ability and experience is common.  The work I do is exciting and often leading edge.  Remuneration and insurances are better than most people think.  When we come together, we are incredible.  Outstanding professional development as a core part of working.  Great work/life balance and usually will receive very strong support  if need it (e.g. sick leave, travel, new child etc)
Cons: Poor and competing metrics (utilisation, selling etc), mindless spreadsheet driven administration, huge bureaucracy, so much process that it is a wonder we ever get anything done, removal of support staff and transfer of their workload and the need to learn their processes is highly inefficient, always keen to over-engineer things, treat low utilisation of people as a synonym for low performance.  So many redundancies, it is hard to find anyone with experience who is also reliable.  Redundancies are based on who is currently low utilised which means we often keep average performers who happen to have fallen into high utilisation while getting rid of high performers who happen to be currently on the bench.  Frequently trot out the corporate values and internal marketing while ignoring the fundamentals such as selling work.  We are so caught up in internal administrivia that we exhaust ourselves and don't do selling and solutioning well enough.  Has become common to be asked to perform well outside skill area to cover for the absence of people who have been made redundant or resigned.  The exodus of people is killing morale and capability.