Company: IBM
Date: 2011-08-25
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former

If you have no family and want to travel then it works for you.
Pros: Compensation was appropriate for the position. Follow IBM procedures and processes and expenses are paided as reported in a timely fashion. If one so chooses you are climb the corporate ladder.
Cons: Having a home life the travelling got old fast especially when you were not compensated for any of the travel time unless you work. IBM uses total hours worked 'ulitization' percent as part of performance evaluation. If you fall below utilization target, you pay the price at performance review time. You surpass your utilization target and nothing too the good comes of it. Constant battle between those watching expenses at client site and yourself to be able to work the 'average' number of hours needed per week to meet your utilization target. Once you complete an assignment at client, IBM provides you with tools to find a new assignment bu you must find your own assignment. IBM assigns a 'resource development manager' (RDM) who is suppose to help you find a new assignment. Have consistently heard that RDM's are worthless and provide little actual support (that was the case for me). I found a new assignment and was at client site 1 day when I was informed by IBM that I was identified as a 'resource action' as part of their annual purge process and to be laid off in 30 days. No reason given as to how or why I was chosen.

IBM does not address the 'human cost' factor in its business model