Company: IBM
Date: 2015-11-14
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former

Stability and benefits but a horrible experience
Pros: - Strong focus on innovation and working to truly improve the planet
- Kind and intelligent coworkers who really care
- Consulting by Degrees (CbD) has great training and opportunities to connect with other consultants who are also right out of school
- Great benefits and salary
Cons: - Public Sector contracts are currently in testing and quality assurance even if you're in Business Analytics and Strategy.  I was put in a position where I was supposed to have at least a BS in Computer Science or Engineering.
- Huge mismatch between employee's skills and project placement.  The emphasis is putting lower bands who are cheap labor onto projects that need bodies asap.
- Horrible experience working at the USPS and was required to be on the project for a minimum of a year and most likely two years.  Worked 6 days a week including Sunday mornings on client site at 4am.
- Inability to move from project to project.  I had almost 10 IBMers leave the company during my 9 months on my project because movement to another project was so impossible, and I did the same.
- So many young consultants are having issues with their projects that it is falling on deaf ears.  The managers and upper management are overwhelmed and don't listen and are surprised that young consultants are leaving.