Company: IBM
Date: 2015-08-12
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Senior Managing Consultant
Pros: Wide variety of industries, many high-quality people to work with on projects, reputation opens doors to interesting engagements, competitive wages. Hiring process was fairly well run.
Cons: For such a well-established technology company, searching their practitioner database for reference work and relevant IP yields documents that are often over five years old in a foreign language.

Very inefficient staffing, ad hoc training and career planning...

I was hired as an experienced professional, given a laptop with basic administrative training and then left to fend for myself with no initial projects in mind when I was hired in so as to help establish my network. It took several months to become staffed on the first project.

Variable compensation is only given to a very small percentage at the very top of a year's given achievers and only when the company is performing well so don't count on more than your base salary.