Company: IBM
Date: 2018-04-11
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

IBM Client Innovation Centre - Project Analyst
Pros: - Great team of people
- Good exposure to client facing roles
- Remote working (at task managers discretion)
- Good place to start your career
Cons: - Not a career for the long term future.
- Must be flexible and willing to travel to take on other roles (you may not even want) to have any chance of progression.
- Targets solely based on utilisation. 
- Lack of benefits despite introducing pension, child care vouchers and cycle to work scheme.
- Increased quantity of promotion bands limit pay rises.
- Unbelievable levels of bureaucracy. 
- Lack of promoting any form of networking within the wider company to get on a project or role you want - due to CIC politics.
- Top level management only interested in progressing themselves and achieving KPIs to get annual bonus.
- Business based on ‘Cost’ model, meaning the cheaper, the better.