Company: IBM
Date: 2010-02-24
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former

IBM fails to lead consulting projects on home grounds
Pros: IBM is great place to learn, I had very good support from my managers and experienced consultants when I was doing my master's thesis. Also due to the size and worldwide recognition of the company, no matter where you are in the world, you are sure to find a fellow ex or current IBM-er
Cons: A big downside is payment, which in my case was considerably less than my previous employer (Big4 firm), while the workload was about the same.
More importantly, and that might only be true in my case, IBM is still an engineering company, where young consultants with economist/business management education will have a hard time getting through to more experienced colleagues with engineering backgrounds. 
Sometimes a project is not just about the technology, but more like the business, and in these cases business-oriented people like myself can feel like being caught between a rock and a hard place, or feeling like an oddball, bringing 'soft' business issues up to the same meetings that have serious engineering problems at the agenda.