Company: IBM
Date: 2021-01-22
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Lackluster leadership
Pros: Salary and that's about it. IBM seems to focus heavily on frontloading salary and signing bonuses to get people in the door.

The company still looks good on a resume for now.
Cons: For GBS it's a 44-hour workweek minimum to make utilization targets. The 44 hours thing is set up to dilute our hourly rate on bids. You will not promote if you only put in 44 hours though.

Management is full of fake leaders and buzzwords. There is a great deal of lip-service leadership going around and little actual leadership. Promotion seems based on loyalty and brown-nosing, so many managers in leadership positions don't actually know what they are doing.