Company: IBM
Date: 2012-01-06
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former

Good and Bad
Pros: -Great learning experience due to exposure to wide range of situations and challenges
-Adoption of industry standard best practices and processes (see cons for executions of said processes)
-Management is usually supportive when help is needed.
Cons: -Processes are poorly designed and there is a large amount of overlapping between many processes. The same information gets repeated in web portals, spreadsheets and powerpoints just to satisfy the whims of some bureaucrat. It is beyond ridiculous that I was spending 50-60% of my time filling up reports and working through bureaucracy and red tape.
-Management is so detached they do not have a clue of the challenges faced by ground troops. 
-Compensation compares poorly with competitors and non-vendor companies. Very difficult to hold on to talented people.
-Work life balance: what work life balance?