Company: IBM
Date: 2015-11-02
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Senior Technical Resource
Pros: Services relate to benefits and underlying purpose is the help people: cash assistance, food stamps, medical care - enabling people to get access to services their entitled to and often desperately need isn't the worst thing to spend time building.
Some technically creative people under the covers but actions speak louder than words in so many cases.
Cons: Proprietary framework, proprietary tooling can leave people in a corner when it comes to technical careers. 
Senior technical architects are MIA since acquisition by IBM - feathering their own nests and networking outside the Curam group leaving non technical manager fumbling at key issues.  Reacting to trends 12-18 months late is not progressive and just because you shout AGILE, doesn't mean it's true. 
IBM benefits enjoyed by the majority of IBM staff like moving between roles and groups, working from home and having a career plan do not necessarily apply to all Curam employees.