Company: IBM
Date: 2011-04-26
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current

Mix and match things. I’ve spent more then 5 years in IBM AT&T account and here m sharing what has happened in this dura
Pros: Brand name
1.	Flexible working hours, work from home facility
2.	Shift allowances.
3.	 Learn various IT processes
4.	Many training programs (Softskill, technical, processes) held where you can grow in both the directions, vertical as well as horizontal.
5.	No politics I’ve noticed in my journey so far.
6.	You get exposure to work on large scale projects
7.	I would say very good onsite chances if you show loyalty to management.
Cons: 1.	Work/Life -> depends if you have relaxed stuff then okay (3/4 months out of 12 months) but most of the time you spend doing late night
2.	You usually spend time in attending various un-necessary meetings rather then focusing on the actual work.
3.	Processes make your grow limited since for the maintenance and enhancement work you spend 60-70% of the time in documentation and very less in implementation hence you end up in doing late night work.
4.	Although the fixes/patches are simple, you forcefully asked to go with the processes which takes huge time and end up in client not satisfied.
5.	Frankly speaking here you get horizontal growth in leading the team, direct client interactions etc but very much lack in the vertical where most of the chances are you lose all your technical ability.
6.	After all the salary usually very less compare to service based industries. No doubt if you are hired then you get very good CTC but company does not follow strategy to retain critical resources.
7.	When you get a chance for onsite, its like you go for your own since all the approvals, travel/hotel bookings you have to do your own. The same I have come to know from the competitor organization (from colleague) where there the processes are quite smooth and in favor of employees.