Company: IBM
Date: 2017-01-24
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Great Stepping-Stone for Graduates
Pros: -Learning opportunities are only limited by the number of hours in the day
-Great community and lots of fun social activities and opportunities to meet colleagues
-Huge opportunities to grow and take on responsibility; you will get recognition but you will not be compensated 
-Very young with lots of people from diverse educational backgrounds
-Very international; primarily Dutch but lots of English-speakers
-Flexible working hours when not on strict client project
-You can turn down a project if you don't think it's an area you want to develop in
Cons: -Below market wages
-No pension options
-Expensive healthcare options
-No company car despite sometimes lots of travel
-No overtime (only "time for time") 
-You can turn down projects, but you have to minimize your time non-billable hours otherwise it will look bad on your annual review
-To find good and interesting projects, you really have to advocate for yourself