Company: IBM
Date: 2012-04-15
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former

IBM Global Consulting Services seems to have lost its way
Pros: Opportunity to travel if you like/want that.
The name gets you in the door.
Salary and benefits are good.
Cons: (FOR GBS division)
Work life balance is very poor.
Expectations of hours to be worked are very high.
Promotions are virtually non-existent once you get to a certain level.
Bureaucracy  is overbearing.
Such a large organization that your management can help you with very little - they are small fry themselves in the greater scheme of things.
Appears that all admin is being outsourced/automated, so that when there is a problem it is way more difficult to sort out than it should be.
Feels like focus is on earnings per share rather than investment in employees.
I don't know anyone in the company who has said a good thing about training and personal development.