Company: IBM
Date: 2017-11-21
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Global Security Consulting, Security Intel Services (Formerly GTS)
Pros: You get to work with the biggest companies and brands all over the world which is very impressive for your resume.
Most of your colleagues are very smart and hard-working problem solvers with positive attitudes.
Small teams means you take on real responsibility and learn quickly.
You get to see projects through to completion. (6-12months)
Expense-paid travel internationally, your per-diem is usually generous and you almost always stay at 4 star hotels. You get to spend your weekends and and sometimes evenings exploring a city in a foreign country.
The pay is good, higher than the average college graduate consulting job.
You learn things that are close to current state-of-the-art.
There are some very impressive managers (associate partners and partners) that can always be counted on for the hardest problems.
Cons: Your experience is HIGHLY dependent on your manager (the partner or associate partner on the project) Some are workaholics and will have you working 10-12 hour days and flying to a foreign country with a week notice. Others will have you on the bench because they don't want to take up the cost of your on-the-job learning.
You are limited to mostly advising and working with IBM products, which are not always the best tools for the particular situation.
The things you learn in the global security practice are slightly behind the technological sophistication and maturity of current state-of-the-art in the US, according to my colleagues.
IBM admin bureaucracy is some of the worst, you must find a veteran to help guide you through things like doing expense reports correctly and filing requests for IT issues. 
On international flights we fly economy even though we bill travel to the client: this is IBM policy due to budget tightening.
The overall culture at IBM (not specifically the consulting practice) feels very sales-oriented. We have sales guys who promise the world with our products but consultants are left to deliver on them. They are starting to change this to a more consulting-focused approach like the traditional big 4.
Work-life balance is not very good: you may be gone for 2-3 weeks at a time. I've been in a foreign city for 5 weeks due to the demands of the project.