Company: IBM
Date: 2015-04-02
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Delivery Center model: Good in theory but doesn't have the managerial or corporate support that it requires for success.
Pros: Salary was fair.  Benefits good.  Many of the accounts are diverse and interesting.  Interesting/bright people for the most part.  Love the diversity and the corporate support for it.
Cons: Far too many poor (biased, disengaged) managers on the 1st line and 2nd line levels.  Salaried positions have expectations that PMs will work/donate a lot of hours.  'Continuous improvement' in name only...it is not implemented within PM pool.  Huge disconnect between Dubuque team/management and corporate management.  Most PMs do not expect or want to be with IBM long term due to the lack of opportunity, pay increases & opportunity available...seemingly all PMs are job searching.  If training opportunities have any costs, PMs cannot register or participate in them...free/no cost training only.  Open door/grievance process is broken.  CEO received a multi-million dollar bonus just days after 1000s of employees received layoff notices...it's all about the stockholder & employees are dispensable.