Company: IBM
Date: 2018-10-05
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

CBD Consultant
Pros: Amazing past legacy, great diversity and some bright people that try their hardest every day. A lot of career oppurtunities if you are self starter and motivated. Provides great working experience with some big name clients.
Cons: Graduate entry consultant program (CBD) is horribly mismanged. Consulting practice is focused on good at selling and bad at delivering. You are very likely to be assigned a manager you will never ever get to meet, who probably doesn't care about you or one that is being forced to act as a manager now that he is at a higher band level. They have annual layoff cycles and you may end up getting caught in them even with good performance. Company is way to big for it's own good and somehow the CEO still incharge after six years of revenue decline. 

In closing, I honestly don't know if it was the right move to join IBM out of college. Sure the pay was great and so was the experience while it lasted but the badly mismanged entry level training program and overall disorganization definitely threw a wrench in my career plans.