Company: IBM
Date: 2013-03-14
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

Good place to work, if you can avoid Global Services
Pros: Many great, smart people.  Flexible and interesting work.  Good pay.
Cons: Moved to Global Services after 20 years in Development.  What a difference!!  Global Services is a soulless organization.  The first three things in their mind are 1. utilization, 2. utilization, 3. utilization.  And the fourth thing is reporting utilization on time (or even better, report it early). Only place I've ever worked where their attitude is that if you have been around long enough to earn more vacation (or happen to get sick), you need to work more overtime in order to hit your utilization target (based on total hrs, not available hrs).  I understand that Global Services is a labor-based organization and utilization is a key metric.  But it's an obsession with management.  First time I have ever felt completely devalued as a person.