Company: IBM
Date: 2016-03-31
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Client Innovation Centre - Utterly disappointing
Pros: - Opportunities to work with big clients from the get-go.
- Some ambitious, hard-working and friendly colleagues and lots of help and advice from more senior colleagues who have more traction with management.
Cons: - No relevant or useful training. However, you are expected to behave like a trained consultant and are chastised if you make a mistake or don't have enough skills to get onto a project.
- Management don't appreciate or know what to do with the skills you have, leaving you feeling undervalued.
- Support has to be sought out. No monitoring of projects, meaning issues inevitably arise and the management do not understand the situation.
- No path for career development and no real feeling of achievement.
- Real lack of diversity; the vast majority of employees are from the same background with the same skills, making it very hard to integrate with existing staff.
- Seemingly no communication between managers and lack of transparency with employees.
- Often treated more like a utilisation number than a person, and management don't make time to understand your situation.
- Lack of morale; no-one really enjoys their work or projects and there are people leaving or looking for a new job every week.
- No option for flexi-time or working from home unless under extreme circumstances.
- Not enough projects for certain roles, however you are then made to feel like you are not doing enough.
- Highly unprofessional working environment. The office does not feel like an adult workplace; university is actually more professional.
- No pension, benefits or rewards.