Company: IBM
Date: 2013-12-18
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Ultimately lacks autonomy, complexity, and a clear connection between effort and reward
Pros: - Good introduction to enterprise technology and B2B interactions
- Client-facing roles and exposure to a variety of industries and experts
- Opportunities to learn and work on interesting content (be very proactive and self-promote)
- Pro due to Con: Learned how to network, self-promote, and find assignments on my own
- Of course, the "brand name" on the resume
Cons: Consulting by Degrees Program
- Poor management of talent with myopic emphasis on utilization rate and minimizing bench
- Not much emphasis on talent development and consultants treated as "Business Machines"
- Often staffed on non-inspiring, underwhelming roles as "shadow" (cheap) resources
- Too much oversight, lack of trust, and cannot provide feedback to management
- High attrition rate erodes community, few stay beyond initial two years

Global Business Services
- Bonuses meager to efforts undertaken; no effective incentive to perform at 100%
- Blind focus on the bottom-line and quarterly performance to meet "EPS roadmap"
- Cuts to employee benefits and increases in billable hours announced without discussion
- Office lacks basic amenities, reliance on sub-standard IBM legacy applications and software
- Slow moving bureaucracy and low employee morale even among veteran IBMers

Executives > Shareholders > Clients > Employees...