Company: IBM
Date: 2008-06-11
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current

Great pay, mediocre enthusiasm of employee population
Pros: Dedicated employees. Competitive pay and benefits. Large company with opportunity for skills and career advancement. Ability to work from home, job permitting.
Cons: Tasked to meet billable hours, which most times greatly exceed 40 hours.  Whether or not you agree, a GBS employee is committed to 100% travel if s/he is a part of the GBS organization.  Persons on external (green dollar) accounts are oftentimes treated better than those on internal (blue dollar) accounts come promotions, variable pay and raises.  Management is great at not giving employees all the facts when presenting sensitive issues, such as the salary plan (raises).  Continued initiatives to offshore labor.  Execs like to limit their vision to the dollar sign.