Company: IBM
Date: 2014-04-16
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Global Services exists to outsource employees.
Pros: Vacation time and decent benefits.   There are a lot of good resources on the intranet pages if you learn how to find them.
Cons: No raises-- they place people in a band lower than their current salary and responsibility to make them abouve the midpoint..  and give raises to 20% of the staff at best.

I came to GBS from a deal with a major company.  Their goal was to eliminate staff and send the position to India.   The daily group discussion concerned the regularly occurring RAs (layoffs).  I ended up being the last person in a group of more than 10-- they shifted more and more work with no compensation in pay.   Not only that, it was odd having treating former co-workers as "customers".  I ended up leaving because of the amount and type of work -- I'm a software developer and didn't want to spend my time filling out forms about function points and training developers in India how to do their job-- that didn't work, anyway, because the staff in India switched to new positions and groups on a regular basis.