Company: IBM
Date: 2014-02-13
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Need to THINK - Are we maintaining a balance of both client and people
Pros: Opportunities are endless if you have the willingness to dive freely. Lot of freedom to explore your own potential. Excellent ground for freshers to start career with. Worked for 8 years. I firmly believed living the IBM values and loved this organization and the concept, until we started chasing a 20 EPS target. Once a IBMer, always a IBMer. Whether I continue to stay in IBM or not, I don't think I will ever be able to remove the IBM values from within me, that's how I am bound to my colleagues and the organization.
Cons: Flexible timings are exploited and taken disadvantage of by both the organization as well as practitioners. Working late hours kind of becomes a norm than a "once a while contribution". Practitioners on the other hand literally abuse the "Work from home" culture and "Sick leaves". Working on weekends also becomes a norm, once you start tracking utilization targets as early as first quarter. One gets into a dilemma that if you are forced to use a "reusable asset" (although in reality you are not), why would you think of innovating something new? If you want to get into a factory mode, why not hire people who "cannot" think rather than hiring highly talented individuals who get demotivated maybe in first 2-3 years itself.