Company: IBM
Date: 2017-02-12
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Great place to work but projects only as good as what MDs win
Pros: Mostly friendly environment 
Perks - staying away from home, hotels, travel, generous AMEX budget etc 
Range of opportunities to excel 
360 review of performance from colleagues, managers and clients - fair system 
Loads of ways to get involved in 'giveback' or CSR activities - they genuinely care
Supportive environment for women 
Flexible working - most of times at least one day per week working from home 
Accessibility - most senior consultants, partners etc are down to earth and approachable IBMers don't take themselves too seriously 
TRAINING - I had a ridiculous amount of training opportunities both at the start and throughout, quite a few are online and will need to be done in your own time but excellent training nevertheless 
Work life balance is generally quite good if you factor in that on a number of projects you will need to work away from home for SIGNIFICANT amounts of time 
Benefits good... but**
Cons: Lack of interesting / varied projects at times - unfortunately this depends on loads of other factors outside of company's control 
Pay is lower - compared to other big IT consultancies - this should really be resolved considering clients are charged so much and IBM is at the more 'expensive end' of the market 
Lack of sexiness - so that down-to-earth feel can manifest itself in terms of people's dress and things like that - IBMers are not the stoosh and sexy McKinsey types - but maybe that's a good thing 
Lack of COMPANY STATIONERY... like wtf?
Working away from home - this does encroach on life after sometime
**but compensation, generally quite poor, at least starting out as a graduate