IBM Princeton Reviews

Pros

Perfect Work life balance, IT Services Giant, Fortune 500 clients, Dedication to Client's success and Globally integrate enterprise

Cons

Too much Process Oriented. Too many approvals required. Clients consider only for Services and not for consulting.

Advice to Management

Be more agressive

Pros

For a majority of time I was there, I worked for one product line. Some areas of the company have good local managers / leadership, which helps to provide a good working atmosphere where an employee can feel fulfilled with their contributions. Salary seems to be a little better than average.

Cons

IBM is currently undergoing a complete transformation of it's business and business it deems 'not in its core' are being dismantled, with little regard to the intelligent resources that it affects. Outwardly, IBM states that it invests in its employees and will allow them to move from between divisions / products, but in reality it provides little support to those attempting to get education to keep up-to-date technically...

Advice to Management

First-line managers have little ability to reward key employees, and as a first-line manager I felt frustrated many times attempting to get employees rewarded or attempting to give employees opportunities to expand their knowledge base, while remaining productive.

Pros

Open culture, work life balance

Cons

Nothing I experienced so far

Advice to Management

Good management style.

Pros

GBS was pretty hard to handle with all the traveling, utilization, etc, but working as a consultant for different companies gave me a great deal of experience and exposure to pretty much all the experiences you want to have during your lifetime - from sad to funny, from beautiful to ugly. Exceeded pretty fast by working hard, and giving it my all. But that was when the economy was better.

Cons

Depending on which group you're working in, there are not too much personal relationship that you develop in GBS. The manager that supposed to rate you, doesn't work with you on a daily basis, and in most cases have never met you before. Reviews strickly rely on the people you work with that will report to this stranger who'll give you a rating your bonus, salary, and future depend on.

Pros

In the beginning it was a very stable workplace.

Cons

Too much daily travel. Unpredictable amount of overtime.

Pros

They have great opportunities in terms of career growth

Cons

Using lotus notes. replication of a lot of work between divisions.