Company: IBM
Date: 2012-01-24
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current

Good work experiences but too much focus on Billable Utilization
Pros: Impressive for resume to say that work for IBM
Fortunate to have worked on many interesting and diverse projects that have provided excellent work experience - my customer experiences have been excellent (may be looking to them for a job soon...)
Cons: I was hired to work 40 hours per week but because they keep raising the BU targets (almost 90% for 2012 for my particular situation), they expect me to work many hours OT for free just to meet my BU target.  This effectively eliminates my vacation benefit of 5 weeks per year and also 2 of the statutory holidays.  Either vacation is a benefit or not, you can't give it with one hand and take it back with the other.  This BU target is up over 3% from last year.  Oh, and that doesn't include any admin activities (training, time reporting, etc.) that they expect you to do on your own time or heaven forbid that you may be sick or on the bench for a day or two.  Makes me wonder if they are just raising BU target each year to see when the uprising will come.....  For me, it's soon..