Company: IBM
Date: 2019-09-10
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Has a lot of training but low pay and benefits
Pros: - Had a lot of time to train to hone your own skills
- Has opportunities for you to learn outside your own career (shifting careers etc.)
- Lax dress code
Cons: - Low pay
- Has a thing called Utilization. Basically this means people have to compensate for the time that they will be away (whether it be because of Sick leave, Vacation leave, or Emergency leave). In our team, we had to work an additional of 2 hours per week per person so that our utilization will be on top. It ensures that everyone in the team is UTILIZED properly. If, for example, one person files a sick leave for two days (or 16 hours), the whole team has to compensate for those 16 hours that that person missed. Because of this process, the people are SHAMED for using their SLs and VLs because their teammates will suffer. Also, if the Utilization is low for a team, the management (as what was implied to us) may decrease the headcount for the account since they can "work anyway even if there are fewer people"
- Because of the Utilization, VLs are not totally used. VLs are also not transferred to the following year. 
- Higher band levels are MORE overworked since OTs are not paid.