Company: IBM
Date: 2010-02-08
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former

Stepping Stone
Pros: Good place to learn technical basics.
Good access to technical tools.
Unfortunately there just aren't very good reasons to work for IGS.
Cons: To many management layers.
Promotion and raises heavily dependent on how good you are playing office politics.
To many under performers that drag down the good workers.
To many first line and second line managers that simply go through the motions.
Very little personal responsibility and accountability. Promotions go to those who avoid responsibility. Common game, is for "senior" technologists to avoid direct work assignments but "assist" lower band workers. Often the senior technologist provides no value, but implicitly is given credit if the project succeeds, and completely avoids accountability if the project fails.