Company: IBM
Date: 2015-06-29
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Overrated and under promised
Pros: - The IBM brand (Global Business Services GBS) on your CV opens a wealth of opportunities 
- Client facing experience 
- Good benefits 
- Handful of great people to work with
- Better place for graduates
Cons: - Extremely low pay for experience hires, not a place for experience hires
- Not a company that looks after their staff 
- Utilisation is extremely high 85%, which effectively means there is no work life balance
- Ego driven consultants and heavily driven by layers of management
- Promotion process is long and tiring. Everything is driven by your Band, not your capabilities or skill set
- 100% travel and client based
- Negative culture 
- Internal politics and bullying but HR does not care to resolve