Company: IBM
Date: 2010-04-26
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current

Great company, but consulting is once again a work in progress
Pros: - Bright, nice colleagues; not a cut-throat environment
- Generally, a strong (and real) emphasis on work/life balance compared to other firms
- Large company with opportunities to transfer to non-consulting roles 
- Reasonably good job security
Cons: - Lack of an up and out policy limits upward mobility; executives find comfortable roles where all that is required of them is showing up to a few meetings each week
- Management has never trusted current staff - almost all "Partners" are hired from the outside  
- Consulting services were hit hard by the down economy; some practices have dissolved from RIFs and departing staff and will take a few years to recover