Company: IBM
Date: 2017-10-23
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Internal Consultant
Pros: Note that my review is based off my perception of pros/ cons and based largely on my teams and geo. 

MY PROS: 
-Large brand name 
-Decent work life balance 
-Flexibility to work from home 
-Good benefits 
-Ability to have exposure to a global business 
-Project work can be interesting 
-Pay is pretty good 
-People are pretty smart
Cons: Note that my review is based off my perception of pros/ cons and based largely on my teams and geo. 

MY CONS:
-Poor company culture 
-Lack of trust in leadership 
-Low accountability 
-"Yes people" are valued
-Going against the grain is frowned upon 
-Buzzword hell (i.e. Cognitive, Analytics, Big Data...Watson) 
-Most of middle management is complacent and stay because of IBMs work flexibly so they rarely do anything different than before 
-IBM is very slow to change 
-Very insular 
-Poor financial performance creates constant restrictions 
-Low grade infrastructure (IT, Buildings, etc) for a tech company.