IBM reviews

Tasked to meet billable hours, which most times greatly exceed 40 hours. Whether or not you agree, a GBS employee is committed to 100% travel if s/he is a part of the GBS organization. Persons on external (green dollar) accounts are oftentimes treated better than those on internal (blue dollar) accounts come promotions, variable pay and raises. Management is great at not giving employees all the facts when presenting sensitive issues, such as the salary plan (raises). Continued initiatives to offshore labor. Execs like to limit their vision to the dollar sign.

Lower pay than other companies, benefits in a death spiral and management lack of respect for the employee. Compensation growth is non-existent, in fact likely to be negative regardless of your performance. If you are not in a customer facing role your job is most probably going to a low cost country, though it may not happen quickly (IBM is accomplishing this slowly so it does not attract too much media attention). A mobile workforce, as IBM has, often means working alone without support, and without adequate tools. IBM expense and infrastructure policies mean spending hours a week accounting for travel and activity, which if you have service level agreements must be done on your own time.