Company: IBM
Date: 2016-03-24
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current

Managing Consultant
Pros: Large company, large projects and top name clients. Lots of opportunity to do whatever you want and grow as long as you take charge of your own career. If you like to travel domestically and internationally, you are in for a treat.
Cons: You become 1 of 400,000 employees ... CEO publicly states that she places more importance on shareholder value than her employees. Super bureaucratic organization. Work life balance is very poor. Partners will "tell" you to work on weekends; they won't "ask". Too many processes set at the exec level that get in the way of us operating the business successfully. Practice is often understaffed; even when your management gives you a hiring ticket, someone at the top will slow it down or put a stop to it ... the approval process will take so long and you end up losing your recruits. I cannot honestly think of one colleague that 'enjoys' the company. The reason we stay sane is because most of our interaction is with our clients; so many folks sort of hide in the client's shadow.