IBM reviews

You have to find yourself a role in IBM or sit on the bench Lack of communication with managers and senior execs when you have the skills needed to deliver projects to clients Its not what you know its who you know. Large unresponsive organization Resource managers do not help with role allocation there is no work life balance - its a IBM only Balance No support for new starters - sink or swim mentality

There is tremendous pressure on sales team to meet quotas - so consulting engagements are always over sold and over promised. Once the contract is signed the sales team moves on to sell the next engagement. The sales teams incentives seem to be based on sales numbers and not on project delivery or profitablity. The delivery team instead is measured on client satisfaction and profitability, making it very challenging in all oversold assignments. This over promising of assignments together with a team that is mostly average or mediocre performers puts a lot of pressure on experienced hires to deliver - thus most client engagements end up being 60 to 80 hours a week including weekend work to meet the client expectations. The available technical talent at GBS is made up of a limited number of star performers and a large majority of average or mediocre performers. Most GBS projects have an abundance of contract employees from other staff augmentation firms. There is no control on the quality or delivery of these contract consultants. GBS Partners are ok with this arrangement as long as there is a mark up that is being made from the contract employees. A very small percentage of star performers stay back to attempt at promotions, a large majority just move on after getting burnt out in a couple of years.